dump-finance-quote and BRKa BRKb

[Dave Reed]

On Friday 10 December 2004 02:51, Michael Goll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using gnucash 1.8.9 and I was having trouble with getting quotes 
for BRKa  
> and BRKb.  I finally figured out the suffix a and b must be in 
lowercase.   
> Gnucash supports this, but dump-finance-quote does not.
> 
> For example,
> 
> dump-finance-quote usa BRKa
> 
> The query for BRKA failed!!  Found data for stock(s) BRKa instead.
> 
> though it does when you use the -v option.
> 
> The culprit is
> 
> $stock =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;
> 
> When I comment it out, dump-finance-quote works for BRKa, however, I 
assume it  
> was put in there for a reason.
> 
> Can this be fixed?  Or am I missing something?

I don't know, but you can make a quick hack on your local copy by 
changing that to:

if (($stock != "BRKa") && ($stock != "BRKb")) {
   $stock =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;
}

My Perl is rusty but I think that is correct.

Dave