Lesson 5: Handling file lists
Sometimes it is useful to perform different actions for each item in a set of files. For example, if you do the following:
# Connect to server OPENHOST("ftp.myhost.com","joe","123456") # Download all files GETFILE(*.*) # Delete the downloaded files DELETEFILE(*.*) # Close the connection CLOSEHOST # Connect to server OPENHOST("ftp.myhost.com","joe","123456") # Change the current local directory. All files # will be downloaded here. LOCALCHDIR("C:\users\carlos\desktop\localftp") # Get the remote file listing, store it in $list GETLIST($list,REMOTE_FILES) # For each file in $list... FOREACH $item IN $list # Download the file $result=GETFILE($item) # If the file has been downloaded successfully # delete the remote copy. Else stop the script. IF($result=="OK") DELETEFILE($item) ELSE STOP END IF END FOREACH # Close the connection CLOSEHOST
GETLIST commands are usually followed by FOREACH loops. See GETLIST for further reference about parameters and options.