vskatusa has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Here is my code
What is interesting is that when I view the source of html in the browser and search for the pattern I do get a match but programmatically it is not working. Obviously I am doing something wrong...but unable to troubleshoot. Any help would be much appreciated.use LWP::UserAgent; use feature 'say'; my $todaysQuoteStr = ' data-reactid="49"><span class="Trsdu(0.3s) Fw(b +) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px) D(ib)" data-reactid="50">'; $todaysQuoteStr =~ quotemeta($todaysQuoteStr); ## I believe this escap +es all characters that need to be escaped 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); #die $response->code if ! $response->is_success; $string = $response->decoded_content; say "\t\t\t=>searching for todays quote pattern [$todaysQuoteStr]"; + if ($string =~ m/$todaysQuoteStr/) { my $quoteStr = substr $string, $position, 20; my @quotes = split(/<\/span>/,$quoteStr); $price = $quotes[0]; say "\t\t\t[price = $price]"; } else { say "\t\t\t pattern not found"; }
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Re: LWP::UserAgent & match
by haukex (Archbishop) on May 21, 2020 at 16:56 UTC | |
Re:LWP::UserAgent & match
by marto (Cardinal) on May 21, 2020 at 17:23 UTC | |
Re: LWP::UserAgent & match
by choroba (Cardinal) on May 21, 2020 at 15:48 UTC | |
Re: LWP::UserAgent & match
by hippo (Bishop) on May 21, 2020 at 16:00 UTC | |
by vskatusa (Acolyte) on May 21, 2020 at 16:26 UTC | |
by vskatusa (Acolyte) on May 21, 2020 at 16:51 UTC | |
by perlfan (Vicar) on May 22, 2020 at 03:58 UTC |
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