Loading currency exchange rates for dates in the past

[David Carlson]

On 6/9/2012 11:20 AM, David Carlson wrote:
> On 6/8/2012 4:19 PM, Mark wrote:
>> Looking at the Finance::Quote source and docs, it seems like the
>> entire library does not support querying a price or exchange rate for
>> a certain date.
>>
>> Is there another way to mass-load historical prices?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
> Mark,
>
> I am surprised that you have not gotten a response yet.  I know that
> there is no simple solution, but I think that there are some
> work-arounds that usually involve downloading data to a spreadsheet then
> importing from the spreadsheet. 
>
> Since that data is so easy to get, I personally think twice before
> downloading, and only save numbers for dates and securities that I might
> want to have in a future report. 
>
> If you have a security that will soon disappear due to merger or
> whatever, that is another reason to grab it before it is gone.  I myself
> would still use a spreadsheet for that scenario.  That has happened to
> me several times already, and sometimes I have gone back to my old
> records as far back as to 1992 or earlier to retrieve numbers.
>
> Good luck.
>
> David C
>
>
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In case some of you are wondering, yes, there was an internet in 1992,
and yes, that is roughly when I got my first legal copy of Quicken for
DOS.  There was another program then that was much better.  It was
called "My Money'.  It worked very nicely in DOS.  Alas, it fell by the
wayside as Windows took over the mainstream PC business.

David C
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