Yahoo Europe not returning date

[Jonathan Knight]

Yahoo Europe is not returning a date, so the date field in the F::Q data is blank. Is it possible to default this to todays date ?

[Jan]

Hi,

Yahoo Europe changed its URL (don't know if this is crucial) and changed the csv field query syntax (this definitely _is_ crucial). To fix this, in <path_to_Finance_perl_lib>/Quote/Yahoo edit the files Base.pm and Europe.pm.

In Europe.pm change

$YAHOO_EUROPE_URL = ("http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv");
to
$YAHOO_EUROPE_URL = ("http://uk.old.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv");

In Base.pm change
1.
@FIELDS = qw/symbol name last date time net p_change volume bid ask
             close open day_range year_range eps pe div_date div div_yield
         cap ex_div avg_vol currency/;
to

@FIELDS = qw/symbol name last time date net p_change volume bid ask
             close open day_range year_range eps pe div_date div div_yield
         cap ex_div avg_vol currency/;

(switch "time" and "date")

2.
@FIELD_ENCODING = qw/s n l1 d1 t1 c1 p2 v b a p o m w e r r1 d y j1 q a2 c4/;

@FIELD_ENCODING = qw/s n l1 t1 c1 p2 v b a p o m w e r r1 d y j1 q a2 c4/;

(remove "d1" as date _and_ time comes with "t1")

Regards,

  Jan

[Ben Marsh]

Dear Jan,

Thanks for your post.  I will look into incorporating this in the distribution of Finance::Quote.

Regards,

Ben Marsh

[Erik Colson]

Dear Ben,

Did you actually look at this problem ?
I hate it to have to hack every installation of finance::quote I do ;)

Thanks
--
Erik