use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use feature 'say';
my ($price);
my $todaysQuoteStr = 'data-reactid="49"><span class="Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(b) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px) D(ib)" data-reactid="50">';
$todaysQuoteStr = quotemeta($todaysQuoteStr);

my $url = 'https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL?p=AAPL&.tsrc=fin-srch';

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
$ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36');

my $response = $ua->request($req);
my $string = $response->decoded_content;
#say "string = $string";
say "\t\t\t=>searching for todays quote pattern [$todaysQuoteStr]";	

my ($counter,$position) = (0,'');
while ($string =~ m/$todaysQuoteStr/g) {
   $counter++;
   $position = pos($string);
   if ($counter == 1) {last;} # 
}
if (!(defined($position))) { $position = ''; }
if ($position eq '') {
	say "\t\t\t\t<<pattern not found!>> ";
} else {
	my $quoteStr = substr $string, $position, 20;
	say "quoteStr = $quoteStr";
	my $endStr = '</span>';
	$endStr = quotemeta($endStr);
	my @quotes   = split(/$endStr/,$quoteStr);
	$price = $quotes[0];
	say "\t\t\t[price = $price]";
}