Your code worked for me. I used it to look up Google's stock, and got a correct value of 390.

I think your problem lies in your file - for some reason, perl isn't reading in the values from the file as you expect it would. Since you (and I) hard code a variable, and it works fine, plus the fact that I don't know what your /scripts/test.txt file looks like, I suspect it's something with that file.

Here's the code I got to work, with comments. I included some code you can run to help confirm if it's reading in the contents of the file correctly. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Finance::Quote;
use Carp;

# This should give you more info if it couldn't read the file
open SLIST, <, "/scripts/test.txt"
        or croak "Cannot open file - $!\n";
@stocks = <SLIST>;
close (SLIST);

# This will confirm that the stocks read in from the file are 
#  what you expect
print "Checking stocks: ";
for my $stock (@stocks) {
        print "$stock ";
}
print "\n";

# the following code (uncommented) worked fine for me. 
#   It got google's stock quote correctly
#@stocks = ("GOOG");

$q = Finance::Quote->new;
$cc = 'usa';
$symb = 'WTVN.PK';  # What is this used for?  If not needed, good to d
+elete it

%myhash = $q->fetch($cc,@stocks);

foreach $ans (@stocks){
        print $ans ."-". $myhash{$ans,'price'};
}

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-- Burvil

In reply to Re: Finance::Quote; and foreach by bowei_99
in thread Finance::Quote; and foreach by mtaivalmaa

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