perl for Edgar database

baperl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: perl for Edgar database by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Aug 08, 2011 at 14:45 UTC
Unfortunately, the financial information is only available as a subscription feed. You shouldn't need to worry about parsing unless you're preparing your company's statements for filing. The subscription feed is very tightly-controlled by a government-approved contractor, Keane. Here's a link to a pdf that explains eveything in depth: http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/pdsdissemspec120910.pdf	[reply]
Re: perl for Edgar database by Anonymous Monk on Aug 08, 2011 at 14:23 UTC
here's some incredibly old perl scripts: http://ftp.resource.org/edgar/	[reply]
Re^2: perl for Edgar database by baperl (Sexton) on Aug 08, 2011 at 15:22 UTC
thanks....any reason why this wasn't updated...	[reply]
Re: perl for Edgar database by Anonymous Monk on Aug 08, 2011 at 14:46 UTC
hi, Is there a CPAN module/reference to code for parsing the financial tables for companies from the EDGAR database. thanks! Did you find one when you looked on http://search.cpan.org? These look relevant DBD::XBase / DBD::AnyData / DBD::CSV / Text::CSV / Text::xSV DataExtract::FixedWidth / Parse::FixedRecord / Text::FixedWidth	[reply]
Re^2: perl for Edgar database by baperl (Sexton) on Aug 08, 2011 at 15:25 UTC
nope, didn't find anything on cpan. I was looking for something specific....guess I'll probe the link posted by the other Anonymous Monk	[reply]