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A. Khattri wrote: |
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>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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>>Remember my script that sends out HTML emails? Well, that's done, but |
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>>it's in-efficient. |
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>>The actual script that parses screen-scrapes. Initial script only went |
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>>to get the "Last Price" now, I would like to add the "Day Range" |
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>>last_price() |
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>>{ |
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>>value="$(lynx -dump "$url$symbol" | grep 'Last price:' | \ |
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>> awk -F: 'NF > 1 && $(NF) != "N/A" { print $(NF) }' )" |
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>>} |
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>>day_range() |
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>>{ |
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>>day_range="$(lynx -dump "$url$symbol" | grep 'Low \& High:' | \ |
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>> awk -F: 'NF > 1 && $(NF) != "N/A" { print $(NF) }' )" |
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>>} |
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>>The above is in-efficient because I need to call the script to get the |
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>>page 2 times. |
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>Err... what were you saying about perl being hard...? |
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>(At some point, your shell script will become so convoluted that perl |
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>or python will look easy ;-) |
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Very true. I'm not familiar with python (although, I'd like to pick |
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it up), but perl is /perfect/ for screen scraping and text parsing. |
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