Automatic download of stock quotes to file.

[lotsToLearn]

Hello fellow programmers<br>
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My Boss has asked me to write a program that will download our stock price from the web and write it to a file. ( This will be sent to an HP and then displayed on reader boards. )<br>
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So I need to develop a program that will access the data from the web, and write it to a file. Any comments on where to start would be greatly appreciated. <br>
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Lots To Learn.

 

[Milamber]

Hi,<br>
<br>
It sounds like you might need to grab the Net:: module, which, I think from memory, has easy ways to access

http://www pages

(via the HTML part of the Net module)...<br>
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Modules can make your life soooo much easier! Someone else has already don most of the hard work for you! <br>
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Good luck, and have fun,<br>
Milamber

 

[BrooksR]

Where do you find the Net:: Module?

Thanks

 

[perlone]

You can always fetch any webapges you want with permission. But for the net module, try here:

http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Net

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[goBoating]

There are several posts on this topic... try searching on LWP.


keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo

 

[emilybartholomew]

What is LWP?

 

[footpad]

Emily,

LWP is part of a set of modules for accessing the World-Wide Web from Perl. Details can be found at

http://search.cpan.org/doc/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.64/lib/LWP.pm

For more information on CPAN, please see

http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html.

For help installing modules, please see

http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?lastnode_id=954&node_id=128077.

Also, an example showing how to obtain a stock quote from the web using Perl was published in The Perl Journal a while back. the arvice of the article in question can be found at

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1290/sam04010002/.

(The stock quote example can be found near the end of the article.)

Hope this helps...

-- Lance