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Re: Unable to update stock prices
by Thomas Baumgart-3
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On Sunday 16 November 2008 20:09:42 Midahed wrote:
> Thomas Baumgart wrote:
[...]
> > p.s. Hope this works, I haven't tested it at all (well, just using the
> > QRegExp debugger inside KDevelop)
>
> Thanks Thomas. Much appreciated, but I'm afraid it didn't work - I got
> exactly the same result in that the status message doesn't say anything
> about reading the date.
>
> I'd understood the general principles of RE OK and, now that you've
> confirmed that I'm on the right general track, I'll do some more
> experimenting using your suggestion as a base. However, I still don't
> understand the RE that's used to extract the symbol:-
>
> "([^,"]*)",.*My stock Yahoo UK entry says:
"?([^,"]*)"?,.*
for the symbol, and there the quotes are optional
> That says to me "look for a string that's in quotes, that doesn't contain a
> comma or a quote, and is terminated by the first comma you find".
> However, the data I'm getting from Yahoo doesn't have quotes around the
> symbol, but the extraction of the symbol from the downloaded data works OK.
> I fail to understand how! The RE that's used seems to specifically
> require the quotes around the string that it's trying to match, but they
> aren't present in the source data.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Mike
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> Thomas Baumgart wrote:
[...]
> > p.s. Hope this works, I haven't tested it at all (well, just using the
> > QRegExp debugger inside KDevelop)
>
> Thanks Thomas. Much appreciated, but I'm afraid it didn't work - I got
> exactly the same result in that the status message doesn't say anything
> about reading the date.
>
> I'd understood the general principles of RE OK and, now that you've
> confirmed that I'm on the right general track, I'll do some more
> experimenting using your suggestion as a base. However, I still don't
> understand the RE that's used to extract the symbol:-
>
> "([^,"]*)",.*
"?([^,"]*)"?,.*
for the symbol, and there the quotes are optional
> That says to me "look for a string that's in quotes, that doesn't contain a
> comma or a quote, and is terminated by the first comma you find".
> However, the data I'm getting from Yahoo doesn't have quotes around the
> symbol, but the extraction of the symbol from the downloaded data works OK.
> I fail to understand how! The RE that's used seems to specifically
> require the quotes around the string that it's trying to match, but they
> aren't present in the source data.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Mike
--
Regards
Thomas Baumgart
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