[OT a little] Web page deconstruction

Brian Fahrlander brian at fahrlander.net
Fri Oct 22 11:12:59 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 21:20, Clint Harshaw wrote:

> > You'll want to start out by getting the information I would suggest
> > curl or wget and then use perl to extract the information you want.
> 
> Naw, man, that's too much work ;-) just re-use some of the fine CPAN 
> modules already written that extract the data for you!
> 
> Something's choking up the search.cpan.org site at the moment, but when 
> it gets back in working order, do a cpan search for finance. You'll have 
> immediate access to a large library of modules ready to use.

    Ah! I didn't consider that- it never occurred to me that Perl had
such funtions.  I wonder if they mark 52-week highs anywhere...THAT
could be 'the' solution.  

    Thanks so much!
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