cron a job? - how to get a stock price

Hi,

adding the perl-script as a cron-job shouldn't be the problem.

Depending on what quote you need ... can you get the data from www.nasdaq.com ??

ciao
Anti

yes, the stock ticker is HHS. I am sorta new to perl so, be kind! Basically is this how it works...You put a statement to go to the url and put the page in a variable and then parse the info that you just need? if I am on the right track, could somebody give a little more detail about the parsing part? I know I sound over my head, but I have a programming background and I think this would be a good "real world" example of perl. I basically wanted to know if I am on the right track! thanks for your help.

thanks anti! I will research more about those areas and take a look at your spider script. If you find the other script, just email me! thanks...

Hi,

try http://www.webmaster-forums.com/cgi-bin/bigtalker/discussion.cgi?forum=2&discussion=75

It's a small "spider", but if you know how to program you'll find verything you need.

The things you have to understand are http::request and regular-expressions (perldoc ?!). If you manage that your script is almost finished.

Somewhere on this site I posted another script, that loads a page, extracts a date and uploads it via ftp, but I just can't find it sorry.

ciao
Anti

hi,

i just found the script on my site:
http://webhome.nu/webmaster/scripts/gmp.txt
it's very small and useless, but good example to start from.

ciao
Anti

Thanks again anti!