no nothing is showing up in the file. Here is where I looked for information on Net::FTP
http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.19/Net/libnetFAQ.pod ok I will look in perldoc -f package. Is there a better place though? Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/15/2004 07:04 PM Please respond to Perl Beginners List To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Perl Beginners List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Net ::FTP and subroutine calls On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Python folks are right -- whitespace is your friend! Use it! > sub ftpme { > > my $remotehost = "ftp.digitalarchives.com"; > my $user = "cb100524"; > my $pass = "xxxxxxx"; > my $data = $scratchtps; > my $ftplog = "/usr/local/log/ftp_IrMt_scratchtapes.log"; > > my $ftp = Net::FTP->new( > $remotehost, Debug => 10 > ) or die "cannot connect to $remotehost: IronMt"; > $ftp->login($user, $pass) > or die "cannot login ", $ftp->$ftplog; > $ftp->ascii(); > $ftp->cwd('archive'); > $ftp->put($data) > or die "FTP put to IrMt failed", $ftp->$ftplog; > $ftp->quit; > > } > > > and I want to append the result data to my log file. I ran it and the > files was 0 bytes. What am I doing wrong? Is anything showing up in the $ftplog file ? I've never used Net::FTP, but that seems like the first place to look. Does Net::FTP really provide a method $ftp->$ftplog ? I'm surprised that a valid module name can be a variable like that. If you're trying to write debug output to a log, this may not be the right way to do it, unless the Net::FTP docs specifically recomment this kind of code. > Also, how and what do I use to call a subroutine block that is in > another file from my MAIN Perl program? Will you please provide a > code example? The best way to do it is to make a package out of your subroutine (see the usual references for the `package` statment, as well as basic OO documentation), then put this file somewhere that Perl will find it (or use a `use lib ...` statement to tell it where to look -- again, look up the documentation for details), and then just `use MyLibrary;` will do. Look up the documentation and you'll find lots of good examples. -- Chris Devers
