<html><head><meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"></head><body><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">#!/usr/bin/perl -s
#
# Written by Stephen Thorley
# 12 May 2007 - Baseline V1.1
# Update 1.1 added ability to grap up to 5 stock quotes
#
# usage: ./getprice.pl "stock code" "stock code"
# ie: ./getprice.pl amp cba
#
#
=head1 NAME

getprice

=head1 DESCRIPTION

get last price of stocks from the Australian Stock Exchange

=head1 PREREQUISITES

This script requires LWP and URI modules

=pod OSNAMES

any 

=pod SCRIPT CATEGORIES

CPAN

=cut



use LWP::UserAgent;
use URI::URL;

# I'm getting a copy of the web page from asx and saving it here..
# could be usefull for later projects
        $hdrs = new HTTP::Headers(Accept =&gt; '*/*', User-Agent =&gt; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; T312461)");
        $url = new URI::URL("http://www.asx.com.au/asx/markets/PriceResults.jsp?method=get&amp;template=F1001&amp;ASXCodes=".$ARGV[0]." ".$ARGV[1]." ".$ARGV[2]." ".$ARGV[3]." ".$ARGV[4]);
        $req = new HTTP::Request(GET, $url, $hdrs);
        $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
        $resp = $ua -&gt; request($req);
        if ($resp -&gt;is_success) {
                        open (HFILE,"&gt; 123.htm") || die "could not open file handle links.htm";
                        printf HFILE $resp-&gt;content;
                        close HFILE;
                        }
                else {
                        print $resp-&gt;message;
                        }



         open (CONFDATA, ' 123.htm') || die "Could not open html file";
                 while (&lt;CONFDATA&gt;) {
			$x = 0;
			while ($ARGV[$x] ne "") {
				
                 		chomp $_;
				#search for string class..last and return the number after the search as $1
                 		if (m/class..last..(\d+.\d+)/g) {
	                 		printf "last price ".$ARGV[$x]." = ".$1."\n";
                     		};
			$x++;
			};
                 }
        close CONFDATA;

# Clean up by deleting the 123.html file
`rm 123.htm`;

__END__


#start of POD section

=head1 NAME

getprice

=head1 DESCRIPTION

get last price of stocks from the Australian Stock Exchange

=head1 README

get last price of stocks from the Australian Stock Exchange, can take up to 5 command line arguments.

=head1 PREREQUISITES

This script requires LWP and URI modules 

=pod OSNAMES

any 

=head1 AUTHOR

Stephen Thorley
www.thorley.biz

=pod SCRIPT CATEGORIES

Web 

=cut

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