in reply to Who needs files? Net::FTP::Scalar (code)
Are you sick and tired of writing to a file with Net::FTP? Have you thought "gee, it would be nice if graham had made it possible for me to write to a scalar?"
Um, I did. $ftp->retr($filename) will return a tied filehandle. So you can read from that in the same way you would read from a file.
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