Hi Fred,
Please, check my comments and possible solution within your mail.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:45 PM, hOURS <h_o...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I write CGI scripts for my website in PERL. When I used to upload them
> with my FTP
>
The programming language is Perl not PERL.
> program I made sure to do so in ASCII mode rather than binary. My host
> made me switch to sFTP however. I use FIlezilla, and can't for the life of
> me find out how to choose the mode on that. Unfortunately, binary is the
> default mode. I don't like programming when the file displays ASCII
> endline characters. I'd rather see clear, distinct lines rather than one
> long line broken up with those vertical rectangles. When I download a
> script from my site for editing it looks terrible. So I wrote a little
> program to fix that:
>
open (NEW, '>niceviewscript.pl') or die "Couldn't open file for writing";
>
I think is better to use open() three arguments like:
open(my $fh,">",'niceviewscript.pl') or die "Couldn't open file for
writing: $!";
> open (FILE, 'script.pl') or die "Couldn't open file for reading";
>
## same thing here too
> while (<FILE>) {
> $line = $_;
> chomp($line);
> print NEW "$line\n";
> }
> close (FILE); ## close($fh) or die "can't close file:$!";
> close (NEW);
>
> It works great. How do I get it to go in reverse though so it will work
> when I upload it? I figured out that the ASCII number for those vertical
> rectangles that represent line breaks was 10. So I tried:
>
> $sillyrectangle = chr(10);
> open (NEW, '>workingscript.pl') or die "Couldn't open file for writing";
>
## same as above
> open (FILE, 'niceviewscript.pl') or die "Couldn't open file";
>
## same thing here
> while (<FILE>) {
> $line = $_;
> chomp($line);
> $withnewend = $line . $sillyrectangle;
> print NEW $withnewend;
> }
> close (FILE);
> close (NEW);
>
> Why doesn't this work? The newly created file looks just like the old
> one. Now, if anyone can tell me how to upload in ASCII mode (assuming
> that's even possible) that
Possible Solution:
Launch your FileZilla Program, click on the menu bar "Transfer" menu,
then check your sub-menu bar "Transfer type", you should be able to change,
your mode. I preferred to leave mine as "Auto"!
> will solve my problem even better of course. But now I'm curious as to
> why my program for switching back doesn't work.
>
> Thank you!
> Fred
--
Tim
