#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Steven Rutter <scribe@ziplip.com>
use IO::Socket;
use strict;
if ($#ARGV < 0) { die "usage: $0 <symbol>\n" }
my $symbol = $ARGV[0];
my $server = 'quote.yahoo.com';
my $serverPort = '80';
my $get = "/d/quotes.cgi?s=$symbol&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv";
my $remote = new IO::Socket::INET (
Proto=>'tcp',
PeerAddr=>$server,
PeerPort=>$serverPort,
Reuse=>1 ) or die $!;
$remote -> autoflush(1);
print $remote "GET $get HTTP/1.0\n\n";
my $quote;
while ( my $raw = <$remote>) {
# "USVOE.OB",2.75,"4/12/2000","4:00PM",-0.3125,3.0625,3.160000,2.656
+25,538100
# symb, price, lastTrade, lastTradeTime, change, high, low, volume
if ( $raw =~ /\"/ ) {
$quote = $raw;
}
}
close $remote;
$quote =~ s/\"//g;
$quote =~ s/^M//g;
chomp $quote;
my @qarray = split(/,/, $quote);
print "(( $qarray[0] $qarray[1] $qarray[4] ) ( $qarray[7] -- $qarray[
+6] ) ( Vol: $qarray[8] ))\n";
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