(Perl) FTP Download Text File to a Stream

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

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

Chilkat Perl Downloads Perl Module for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Alpine Linux, Solaris

use chilkat();

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

$ftp = chilkat::CkFtp2->new();

$ftp->put_Hostname("www.my-ftp-server.com");
$ftp->put_Username("mFtpLogin");
$ftp->put_Password("myFtpPassword");
$ftp->put_AuthTls(1);
$ftp->put_Passive(1);

# Connect and login to the FTP server using TLS.
$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$streamObj = chilkat::CkStream->new();

# Indicate the charset of the incoming data.
$streamObj->put_StringCharset("utf-8");

# Create a task to do the FTP download.
# t is a Task
$t = $ftp->GetFileToStreamAsync("lines.txt",$streamObj);
if ($ftp->get_LastMethodSuccess() != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Start the task in a background thread.
$t->Run();

# Read the incoming text data using any of the streamObj Read methods.
# This example will read line-by-line.

while ($streamObj->get_EndOfStream() != 1) {
    $line = $streamObj->readToCRLF();
    if ($streamObj->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 1) {
        print $line . "\r\n";
    }

}

print "Success." . "\r\n";