Hi everyone,

For a self-induced project, (and for some personal snorts and giggles,) I have decided to embark on (attempting) to create a program that will help me figure out currency exchange rates of Japanese Yen, and US Dollars. (As I check up on the rates frequently, and being a Perl programmer, would like to create a small program that can quickly calculate the going exchange rates.)

My real question is for this project, (since I can do the other programming and putting together of this initial project,) is: Is there a way I can get information from official exchange rates from statistical web servers, and then use it in my program to get the current (and reliable,) going rate of USD <-> Japanese Yen and vice versa?

I appreciate any time spent to further my education here at pm.org.

Andy Summers

In reply to Currency Exchange Rate Programming by bladx

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