On 9 Jun 2006, at 00:41, Robert Presender wrote:
Using OS 10.3.9
This is my first venture with URL and I will appreciate a bit of help.
I have gotten this far:
Ask "Enter the stock or fund symbol"
put it into hold
get "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=";
put hold after last char of it
revGoUrl it
The above brings up the web page but I can't figure out how
to get some of the numerical data (such as the price associated
with the symbol) from the web page. I would like to get bits of
information
and put them into a field(s) of a stack card.
revGoUrl will just open the page in your browser. Instead, you want
to get the the actual content of the url. To start, try something
like this:
ask "Enter the stock or fund symbol"
put it into hold
get "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=";
put hold after last char of it
put url it into urlData
But then the hard part begins. You'll have to parse the data
contained in urlData, which I assume will be in html format. The
first thing I would do would be to put urlData into a field, and see
what the data looks like. Then you should be able to see how it
might be parsed.
Cheers
Dave
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