problems getting online price quotes

[Anders Vinjar]

Thanks alot.  This works now.

Ive got further, and the price-editor works.  Howeever, some
stocks and funds return their 'date' field as "date: 1/1/1970"
while others return actual date.  Is this something in F::Q or is
it related to the information available?


>>> " " == David Hampton <hampton at employees.org> writes:
 > 
 > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 10:57 +0100, Anders Vinjar wrote:
>> This works fine using 'dump-finance-quote europe NHY.OL', which
>> returns sensible info.
 > 
 > This fails for me due to the lack of any currency being returned by
 > F::Q.
 > 
 > 	The query for NHY.OL failed!!
 > 	Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
 > 	    symbol: NHY.OL               <=== required
 > 	      date: 2/4/2005             <=== required
 > 	  currency: ** missing **        <=== required
 > 	      last: 501.00               <=\
 > 	       nav:                      <=== one of these
 > 	     price: 501.00               <=/
 > 	  timezone:                      <=== optional
 > 
>> I have a feeling this is related to the "Type"-pane in the
>> commodity editor.  What would be sensible values to put in there?
 > 
 > F::Q is unable to extract the currency of the quote from the information
 > it gets from Yahoo.  (If anyone knows how to get this info from Yahoo,
 > please tell me.)  F::Q uses an internal mapping table from quote suffix
 > to currency name.  It appears that the entry in this table for the Oslo
 > stock exchange is wrong.  Its specified as 'OS', not 'OL'.
 > 
 > I'll update the entry in F::Q, but I don't know when the next release
 > will be.  In the meantime you have two choices.  Use the 'OS' suffix
 > when entering stocks into gnucash, or fix the table in your copy of
 > F::Q.  To do the latter, change the line:
 > 
 >   	OS  => "NOK", # Norway		Oslo
 > 
 > to
 > 
 >   	OL  => "NOK", # Norway		Oslo
 > 
 > in the file .../Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm.  The file is in
 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 on my system.
 > 
 > David
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >