Visual Basic 6.0

FTP Download Text File to a Stream

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Demonstrates how to FTP download a text file to a Chilkat stream.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.67 or greater.

Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

' This example assumes the Chilkat FTP2 API to have been previously unlocked.
' See FTP2 Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim ftp As New ChilkatFtp2

ftp.Hostname = "www.my-ftp-server.com"
ftp.Username = "mFtpLogin"
ftp.Password = "myFtpPassword"
ftp.AuthTls = 1
ftp.Passive = 1

' Connect and login to the FTP server using TLS.
success = ftp.Connect()
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print ftp.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim streamObj As New ChilkatStream

' Indicate the charset of the incoming data.
streamObj.StringCharset = "utf-8"

' Create a task to do the FTP download.
Dim t As ChilkatTask
Set t = ftp.GetFileToStreamAsync("lines.txt",streamObj)
If (ftp.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print ftp.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Start the task in a background thread.
success = t.Run()

' Read the incoming text data using any of the streamObj Read methods.
' This example will read line-by-line.
Dim line As String
Do While streamObj.EndOfStream <> 1
    line = streamObj.ReadToCRLF()
    If (streamObj.LastMethodSuccess = 1) Then
        Debug.Print line
    End If

Loop

Debug.Print "Success."