Error message when getting online price quotes

[Anna Scott]

Hi John, it works. :-) Thank you so much for your help and support. I
removed everything with 'perl' in the title and re-installed. I have to get
my UK stock prices from Yahoo USA. All I have to do is put a '.L' at the
end of the UK symbol and it works a treat. If I try using Yahoo Europe for
my UK stock, I get the same old error message. Now if only it worked for
funds too...............

Kind regards, Anna.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:26 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 10:24 AM, Anna Scott <anna at poplarhouse.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi John, I have turned off online quotes for all my funds and securities
> except my IBM stock. I have not changed any of the set-up for this stock at
> all. When I run the 'get online quotes', it now says it can't find quotes
> for the commodity 'IBM. It is set up to get the price from yahoo USA. If I
> turn on online quotes for one of my UK stocks, set up to get the price from
> Yahoo Europe, I get the original 'unknown error' message back again. If I
> change the IBM stock to get the price from elsewhere such as Motley Fool, I
> get the 'unkown error' message. All very odd.
> >
>
> That sure sounds like you still have a version of F::Q before 1.20, so I
> tried it on my Win7 VM. I found that 1) Strawberry Perl 5.12 is too old to
> successfully update to the latest version of F::Q and 2) Strawberry Perl
> doesn't do a very good job of installing over an existing installation. I
> was able to work around the former by running cpan from the command line
> and installing a new version of Modules::Build, but I suspect that's beyond
> the reach of most users, so I took a different tack. This worked:
>
> In Control Panel>Programs and Features, find Strawberry Perl and uninstall
> it.
> From Windows Explorer, delete the folder C:\strawberry
> Run Install Online Quotes.
>
> That built everything cleanly and yahoo quotes now work. Fool seems
> broken: The URL in Fool.pm, 'http://quote.fool.com/quotes.csv?symbols=',
> redirects to their "CAPS" community touting page. Can't say for your UK
> stocks.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>


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Anna
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