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StockTicker

Posted by Thomas Hansen on July 30, 2000 at 8:52 AM

> Hello. I'd like to make a stock ticker, like yahoo's, but i can't figure out how to get the quotes! Do I have to parse the html? How would I go about doing this(a good tutorial/book) would be nice!

> Thanks,

> Will
> will@ibook.mailbox.as

Hi Will,

Yes you would probarly have to parse the HTML page provided that you cannot
get access to the file in another format (anonymous FTP, TXT file etc).

I might be able to help you just a little more as at the University of Oslo
they have a course in which you make a stockplotter applet in Java.
I took the course before they switched to Java, but if you (and anyone else interested)
emailed me in private (and removed the .nospam ending from my email adress)
I can probarly send you some working source files from some of my friends
which have taken that course....

Regards,

Thomas Hansen
From Sunny Oslo, Norway (but sitting inside coding Java..)

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