[ale] retrieving a file via ftp in perl

[Geoffrey Myers]

Mark Heiges wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> 
>> I would like to retrieve a file via perl using ftp, but I want to read
>> the file into an array in perl, rather then drop it on the machine  
>> as a
>> file.  Anyone know if this is possible?  I don't see such  
>> functionality
>> with Net::FTP.
>>
> 
> 
> you can have get() send the file to an IO::Scalar handle.
> 
> my $SH = new IO::Scalar;
> $ftp->get($file, $SH);
> seek $SH, 0, 0;
> while (<$SH>) {
>      print $_;
> }

Sweet, I'll play with it, thanks.

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