Hi,

I'm new to PERL, although I've worked in mainframe COBOL programming applications for years. I have read that PERL is easy to use yet powerful, and so I got interested in learning it.

To all you experts out there, can someone tell me if the following scenario can be perfomed thru PERL? What I'd like to do is write a script in PERL that would allow me to retrieve data from a Web site, download it to a specific directory on my hard drive, and then do some editing on that file before sending it on to an Oracle database. I'm not asking how to do it, simply whether PERL can accomplish it.

What I normally do is go to a site where I type in a stock ticker symbol and a date range and retrieve the following data: Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume for the date range, and then save (download) it to a .CSV format file in a specific directory.

Can I develop a PERL script that would do the above? And perhaps even build a 'driver' file of ticker symbols to retrieve the above data for a set of stocks? I'm just curious to know if the answer is YES or NO.

With many thanks in advance,

Joe

Added <p> tags - dvergin 2003-04-04

In reply to Newbie to PERL curious about what it can do by canguro

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