Hi Dave, that sounds plausible, I will give that a try Thanks Tiemo > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von Dave Cragg > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014 14:09 > An: How to use LiveCode > Betreff: Re: Different results in LC with a file from 2 FTP programs > > On 2 Dec 2014, at 13:54, Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolb...@kestner.de> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am downloading a ASCII txt file with "put URL tFile into tContent" > > from my server. Then I filter the content of the file in LC 6.5.2 to > > get the wanted data. I changed my FTP program on Windows to FileZilla > > because my old FTP program didn't had a SFTP protocol, which I wanted > > to use now. When uploading the same file which is locally 397 KB with > > the old FTP program in ASCII mode it increases on my server to 385 KB. > > When uploading it with FileZilla-SFTP in ASCII mode it shows the excat 397 > KB in the server. > > > > > > > > Here comes my issue. My LC fails processing the content of the same > > file, when it is uploaded with FileZilla, because after the filter > > command each line still has a "CR" at the end of the line, which is > > not there, when the same file was uploaded with the old FTP program. > > Usually I would have expected a "CR" at the line end, but I have never > > watched it and because it wasn't there with my old FTP program I coded > > without expecting a "CR" and now my program fails with the new format. > > It is easy to change my code, but there are a lot of licences out > > there at my customers, which I can't change that easy. > > Tiemo, > > It appears that Filezilla does nothing to the data content when transferring > in ascii mode. There is some information here: > > https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Data_Type > > That would explain why the file size didn't change when uploaded. > > Normally, I would consider that a good thing. I always use binary mode in ftp > to avoid any unexpected changes. However, in your case, if your application is > set to handle the previous format of the uploaded file, I can see it will be a > problem for existing users. > > Can you compare the content of the same file uploaded with the previous ftp > application with the file uploaded by Filezilla? I'm guessing that the > previous ftp program converted LF (ascii 10) line endings to CRLF (ascii 13 + > ascii 10). But it would be good to check. Then, if you are able to set the > file content to match the previous format before uploading with Filezilla, you > should be OK. For example, if my guess is correct, replace all linefeed > characters with CRLF. > > Cheers > Dave > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
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