Getting online quotes prices to work

[Derek Atkins]

"Rich Stanton" <stantonrj at cf.ac.uk> writes:

> perl gnc-fq-dump yahoo_europe GB0006069255GBP
>
> I get:
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>     symbol: GB0006069255GBP      <=== required
>       date: 00/00/2000           <=== required
>   currency: ** missing **        <=== required
>       last: 99.22                <=\
>        nav:                      <=== one of these
>      price: 99.22                <=/
>   timezone:                      <=== optional
>
> ** This stock quote cannot be used by gnucash!!
>
> Clearly the info from yahoo uk is missing some info & the date is wrong.  Is
> that a failing of mine or of yahoo's?  I tried a bunch of other sources in
> gnc-fq-dump but none seemed to even have the security there.

It's probably a F::Q issue...

> Thanks!

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-derek

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