I use LWP::Simple to go out and get a webpage and for the example's sake, write it to a file
perl -Mwarnings -MLWP::Simple -e 'BEGIN {getprint "http://www.stockta.com/cgi-bin/analysis.pl?symb=SPY&cobrand=&mode=stock/"}' >> zzz.out
To make this easier to read I'll parse out just the lines with the tags I need which are "borderTd" tags
cat zzz.out | perl -e 'while (<>) {next unless /borderTd/; print; $lines ++;} print "\n$lines"; '
So you end up with 53 lines which contain "borderTd"... I would print the lines here, but it's html which the brower wants to print as a web page, so the preview gets real ugly. The values I'm trying to capture are on lines 6, 7, 9 and 10 and contain:
line 6 = last price
line 7 = date
line 9 = open and high for the day
line 10 = low and volume.
My challenge is to extract the values in those tags, and manupulate them in some manner that is useful.
I have this other page in development with historical prices, and would like to somehow add these real-time prices to the page and do the updated calculations.
www.aztecura.com/cgi-bin/test15.pl
Input SPY for consistancy
Any help with splitting this data out somehow is very much appreciated.
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