Finance::MoneyNetSymbolLookup - Look up a stock symbol from MoneyNet

Finance-MoneyNetSymbolLookup documentation Contained in the Finance-MoneyNetSymbolLookup distribution.

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NAME

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Finance::MoneyNetSymbolLookup - Look up a stock symbol from MoneyNet

SYNOPSIS

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  use Finance::MoneyNetSymbolLookup;
  @symbols = symbollookup $searchstring; # Look up stock symbols

DESCRIPTION

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This module looks up stock symbols from MoneyNet. The symbollookup function will return an array of lists, each containing the following items:

    0 Symbol
    1 Company name
    2 Security type (typically B<STOCK> or B<MUTUAL FUND>)

EXAMPLE

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    use Finance::MoneyNetSymbolLookup;
    @foo = symbollookup("apple");
    foreach (@foo) {
      print "Symbol: ${$_}[0]; Company: ${$_}[1]; Type: ${$_}[2]\n";
    }

COPYRIGHT

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Copyright 1998, Dj Padzensky

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The information that you obtain with this library may be copyrighted by Reuters, Inc., and is governed by their usage license. See http://www.moneynet.com/home/MONEYNET/info/moneynetcopyright.asp for more information.

AUTHOR

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Dj Padzensky (djpadz@padz.net), PadzNet, Inc.

The Finance::MoneyNetSymbolLookup home page can be found at http://www.padz.net/~djpadz/MoneyNetSymbolLookup/

Finance-MoneyNetSymbolLookup documentation Contained in the Finance-MoneyNetSymbolLookup distribution. 
# perl -w
#
#    Copyright (C) 1998, Dj Padzensky <djpadz@padz.net>
#
#    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
#    (at your option) any later version.
#
#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#    GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
#    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
#

package Finance::MoneyNetSymbolLookup;
require 5.000;

require Exporter;
use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION @EXPORT @ISA $URL);

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

$VERSION = '0.02';
$URL = ("http://www.moneynet.com/data/EQUIS/rawlookup/lookup.asp?NAME=");
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(&symbollookup);

sub symbollookup {
    my $search = $_[0];
    my($srch,$ua,$url,$sym,$name,$type,@qr);
    $url = $URL.$search;
    foreach (split('\r?\n',LWP::UserAgent->new->request(GET $url)->content)) {
	if (/^Symbol:(.*)/) {
	    ($sym,$name,$type) = split(',',$1);
	    push(@qr,[$sym,$name,$type]) if $type ne "TYPE";
	}
    }
    return wantarray() ? @qr : \@qr;
}

__END__

1;