I'm using Finance::Quote 1.35 with Strawberry Perl 5.18.2 (built for MSwin32-x86-multi-thread-64int) in Windows 8 cmd window. Also have McAfee Security Center 12.8.988, McAfee Anti-Virus 16.8.819, McAfee Personal Firewall 13.8. Strawberry Perl is running on a flash drive if that matters.

Here's my subroutine. 

sub getquote
{my($sym,$qdate)=@_; # Symbol is 'googl' in lowercase and date is '201
+40822'.
my($dt,$quote,$s,$t,$procname,$exch);
my(%info,@exchanges);

$procname="getquote";

$sym=uc($sym);

# First qet quote.
# Do not load Yahoo::Base.
#$quote=Finance::Quote->new("-defaults","Fidelity","Yahoo::USA","Tiaac
+ref");
$quote=Finance::Quote->new; # Loads 116 default exchanges.
@exchanges=sort($quote->sources); # See all exchanges here.
$quote->timeout(60);
$quote->require_labels(qw/success errormsg price date exchange name/);
$quote->set_currency("USD");
$exch="usa";
%info=$quote->fetch($exch,$sym,'A','MSFT');
if (! %info)
    {
    $s="$procname ERROR: No information returned for symbol $sym from 
+$exch";
    writeerr($s);
    return; # getquote()
    }
$dt=$info{$sym,'date'};
print "Price of $sym is ".$info{$sym,'price'}." for ".$dt."\n"; # DEBU
+G
 

return; # getquote
}

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Right after the $quote->fetch I do at the debugger prompt "print Dumper(\%info)" and I get this: "$VAR1 = {};" which indicates the hash has nothing in it.

  1. Has anyone else gotten F::Q working in a command box on Win 8?
  2. Any ideas what may be going wrong? I'm stumped.

Thanks.

Got it. This line: 
$quote->require_labels(qw/success errormsg price date exchange name/);

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has invalid labels but F::Q doesn't give an error msg. So this line works: 
$quote->require_labels(qw/price date exchange name/);

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I can also remove the above line and F::Q still returns all data it can about the equity. F::Q really needs better error checking, but I think I have to have an account to file a bug report.
Perl 5.8.8 on Redhat Linux RHEL 5.5.56 (64-bit)

In reply to Finance::Quote returns nothing and no error by bulrush

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