I cannot thank you enough, both for your assistance is finding the bugs (yes, that error message was much more helpful), but more importantly for helping me take better advantage of all perl has to offer. I feel like I learned a great deal from you, which is significantly more valuable than just having code that works.

I apologize for my late reply, as I was on travel for the holiday. I hope your holidays are meaningful and enjoyable....

Wow, I really appreciate not only the effort, but this commenton 'use strict'. In my Perl books they talk about this in later chapters, but it didn't seem necessary to me and I'd never used the strict command in any scripts I've made over the past 10 years. I will use it from now on, though I really don't understand what purpose it serves other than to find spelling errors.. I will read more on this...

So this is my reworked code...

That's not helpful - nothing in the synopsis tells me anything more than I already know - that I am unable to log in during the second ftp event. Adding the $ftp_obj -> message to this step returns "connection closed in line 83".

Like I said, I'm relatively new to perl, but I've been programming for 20 years...


So is this something about the FTP package? Something with the use of the variables?...

I am somewhat a Perl Noob, but I've done some programming with my animal books at my side. This issue, however doesn't make sense to me. I am grabbing data via FTP corresponding to data I've already downloaded (this is a pre-processing front end to some other fortran code). However, in the part indicated below (the second FTP execution), I get a login failure, even both ftp sites allow anonymous FTP.

Any thoughts or suggestions...