Well, that didn't work, unfortunantly. I'm pretty much stumped! If anyone knows the answer... Please HELP me!!! Thanks
P.S. Thanks for the suggestions Rex. -----Original Message----- From: Rex Arul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:37 PM To: Joshua Colson Subject: Re: Net::FTP I might sound silly...Did you try this: if( $ftp->get( qq($file), "${directory}/${file}" ) ) { print "it worked..."; } I am not very confident on this though, because my expectation is this is the default behavior even if you do not give the qq($file). But give it a shot. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Colson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Rex Arul'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 7:29 PM Subject: RE: Net::FTP > I've tried that... If I use quotemeta() it still doesn't work. > In fact, one of the files is named '12329099.$$$' which seems to work > without quotemeta, but with it, that breaks. Then one has spaces in it, and > it just plain old doesn't work at all. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rex Arul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:27 PM > To: Joshua Colson > Subject: Re: Net::FTP > > > Please use quotemeta function to quote meta characters > > perldoc -f quotemeta > > > ============================================================================ > ============== > Rex S. Arul > Senior Systems Engineer > New Energy Associates, LLC > http://www.newenergyassoc.com > All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all > my own. > --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe > ============================================================================ > ============== > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joshua Colson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 7:09 PM > Subject: Net::FTP > > > > I'm trying to use Net::FTP to 'get' some files from a ftp server. The > > problem I'm having is that some of the files have meta characters in them, > > and I cannot seem to figure out how to 'get' the files. > > > > what I have looks like this... > > > > if( $ftp->get( $file, "${directory}/${file}" ) ) { > > print "it worked..."; > > } > > > > It works on some files, but not others... > > Any help would be greatly appreciated!! > > > > Joshua Colson > > Systems Administrator > > Giant Industries, Inc. > > (480) 585-8714 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
