Visual FoxPro

Download Multiple Files Matching Pattern

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The MGetFiles method can be called to download all files matching a wildcarded filename pattern. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loFtp
LOCAL lnNumFilesDownloaded

lnSuccess = 0

* This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
* See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

loFtp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Ftp2')

loFtp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
loFtp.Username = "myUsername"
loFtp.Password = "myPassword"
loFtp.Port = 21
loFtp.AuthTls = 1

* Connect and login to the FTP server.
lnSuccess = loFtp.Connect()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Change to the remote directory where the files are located.
* This step is only necessary if the files are not in the root directory
* of the FTP account.
lnSuccess = loFtp.ChangeRemoteDir("qa")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Download all files with filenames matching "*.txt"
* The files are downloaded into c:/temp/qa_output
lnNumFilesDownloaded = loFtp.MGetFiles("*.txt","c:/temp/qa_output")
IF (lnNumFilesDownloaded < 0) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loFtp.Disconnect()

? STR(lnNumFilesDownloaded) + " Files Downloaded!"

RELEASE loFtp