Downloading Stock Prices - Finance::Quote Problems

[Richard Lindgren]

Well I tried the double quote and did the cut and paste. I am still getting
the same answer that the prices cannot be accessed.

Is there anything else that I can try?

Richard


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

> On 27 June 2014 at 8:04, Erik Colson said:
>
> >
> > On 27 Jun 2014, at 01:18, Richard Lindgren <rlindgren74 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Ok I did the cut and paste, but something is still wrong. I have
> > > attached a copy of my script.
> >
> > Richard,
> >
> > Almost. You are still missing the ending single quote. Keep in mind that
> > quotes should be balanced.
>
> He put the closing quote in on his previous try - see message with date
> "Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:43:55 -0400".
>
> His problem is the Windows commandline parser, which is mangling the line
> before Perl sees it. I get exactly the same on my (WinXP) system. Even
>  perl -e'print $_'
> gives the same missing-terminating-quote error.
>
> The cure is to (a) use doublequotes around the -e command and (b) double
> the doublequotes around the enclosed string. So:
>
> perl -MFinance::Quote -e"print ""Finance::Quote::VERSION\n"""
>
> (that's one, two and three doublequotes respectively)
>
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