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- From: dgrant@peinet.pe.ca (Dennis Grant)
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- Subject: Reading Web pages with AREXX
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 18:55:16 GMT
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- I had a nifty idea, but I need some help with it.
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- I need an AREXX function that takes a URL as an input, and returns the text
- of that web page.
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- Why? There are some Web pages out there that have mutual fund prices on them.
- I want to write a program that would download the pages that have fund prices
- on them, strip out the prices of the funds that I'm interested in, and store
- them in a file.
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- Done as a daily cron job, every morning I could come to work and see how much
- money I've made. :)
-
- Does such a beast exist? If not, anyone want to write one?
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- Dennis Grant
- dgrant@cycor.ca
- http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/
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