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Quote and SendCommand

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Demonstrate the Quote and SendCommand methods.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

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

$ftp->put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
$ftp->put_Username("login");
$ftp->put_Password("password");

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

# Tell the FTP object to keep an in-memory session log
# so we can see the commands sent to the server,
# and the responses received back.
$ftp->put_KeepSessionLog(1);

# Change the current remote directory via the Quote method:
$success = $ftp->Quote("CWD junk");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Move back up 
# In this case, ChangeRemoteDir sends "CWD .." to the FTP server.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir("..");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Do the same via the SendCommand method where the
# raw FTP server response is returned:
$serverResponse = $ftp->sendCommand("CWD junk");
if ($ftp->get_LastMethodSuccess() != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print $serverResponse . "\r\n";
}

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();

print "Session Log:" . "\r\n";
print $ftp->sessionLog() . "\r\n";