Do you know the pattern to how the file names are named?  Do the numbers
mean anything or are they random?  That will determine a lot of how you
should handle the process.

...Glenn

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Laoballer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Hello all,
> I'm new to VB and am starting a project where I have to bring in
> historic weather data into a mysql database.  The weather data can be
> retrieved via anonymous ftp spanning multiple files. What I would like
> to be able to do is create a VB application that will ftp into the
> server and download the necessary files automatically from a list that
> I have generated.  The files are in this format
> # # # # # # - # # # # # # - # #.op.gz (i.e. 88493-53253-2007.op.gz)
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this and point me in the
> right direction.  The data is from the NCDC ftp server
> ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/2007/
>

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