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flanman
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Dec 4, 2000, 2:54 PM

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simple stock quote script	Can't Post

Hi,
I am looking for a simple script that will fetch just one stock quote, for my company, and embed the info into my home html page. An example would be like when you go to a finance site and you automatically get the indexes (NYSE,Nasdaq) on the page. I want to be able to do that with my companies stock symbol, ADP. I do not care about high,lows, volume etc, just the current price. I have implemented several prewritten cgi scripts on our site, but have little to no knowledge on how to create them from scratch. I will greatly appreciate any help that is offered. I have seen java/cgi scripts where a user types in the symbol and gets the info, but I want that part to be automatic when the whole page loads.

Thanks,
Bill Flanagan

liox0001
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Dec 7, 2000, 7:02 PM

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Re: simple stock quote script [In reply to]	Can't Post

you can just modified the cgi script you mentioned to default the stock quote to the one you want (ie. default the quote and skip the input part).

jeffee
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Dec 8, 2000, 3:30 PM

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Re: simple stock quote script [In reply to]	Can't Post

Here is a simple script that should do the trick. Just change the hardcoded ticker in here (altr) to whatever ticker you want. This is basically just using LWP::Simple with a decimal formatted quote from Motley Fool. Note, I chose to do the formatting of the HTML myself here; there are a lot of HTML formatting modules on CPAN you may want to check into as well.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use LWP::Simple;

my $page = new CGI();
print $page->header();
print $page->start_html("Welcome page");
my $ticker = 'altr'; # change this to yours
print "The current price of $ticker is " ,
&GetLatestPrice($ticker) , "\n";
print $page->end_html();

sub GetLatestPrice
{
my($ticker) = shift | | return;
$ticker = uc($ticker);
my($page)="http://quote.fool.com/" .
"detailed.asp?symbols=" .
"${ticker}&Format=Decimal";
my $text = &FormatPage(get($page));
if($text =~ /\nPrice.*\n([\d\.]+)/m)
{
return $1;
}
return;
}

sub FormatPage
{
my($text) = @_;
$text =~ s/\r//mgi;
$text =~ s/<\s*br[^>]*>/\n/mgi;
$text =~ s/<\s*p[^>]*>/\n/mgi;
$text =~ s/<\s*td[^>]*>/\t/mgi;
$text =~ s/<\s*tr[^>]*>/\n/mgi;
$text =~ s/<[^>]*>//mgi;
$text =~ s/\n+/\n/mgi;
return $text;
}

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