To return to the matter at hand, if you wanted to know all the subdirectories in html, you could look for <a> tags. With ftp, you feed a string through strsep()

To return to the matter at hand, if you wanted to know all the subdirectories in html, you could look for <a> tags. With ftp, you feed a string through strsep() and hope there's a 'd' where you're looking for it. There are actually standards documents you can read that specify how to parse html. (Mind boggling length and complexity, aside.) But there's nothing that tells you how to interpret an ftp list response.