Yahoo Finance Get Industry and Sector using Perl
This script parses yahoo finance an pulls the Industry and sector for any ticker symbol you pass it. I used it to create a stock screener I am working on. Hope it becomes useful for you.
#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTML::TableExtract;
if ($#ARGV != 0) {
print “$#ARGV usage: need to pass in a symbol\n”;
exit;
}
$sym = $ARGV[0];
my $url = […]
FLEX and Perl Export to Excel
Need to export a Flex Datagrid to Excel CSV?
Here is a link to the Flex code
The flex code will convert the DataGrid to a CSV string. Which you will then post to a cgi….code below.
You can see it in action on my Dividend Reinvestment ToolÂ
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $count = 0;
use […]
