Re: Can somebody give me a hint how I best solve this

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From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> writes:

> Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Tony Johansson writes:
>> 
>>> I want to find the latest share price for given input for example ABB
>>> by using this background data
>>> [ ... ]
>>> 3.5 527.5   528 AAK   527.5       44325
>>> 0.6   189 189.1 ABB     189     2775531
>>> 0.5 156.5 156.6 ALFA  156.5      679018
>> 
>> Client-side scripting may not be the best tool for this.  I'd first try
>> using command-line tools.  What constraints are you operating under?
>
> But Javascript might well be used in your server-side toolset to solve
> this problem.

Yes, that was the wrong characterisation.  In fact, the issue is not
client vs. server side, nor is is JS vs. any other scripting tool.  It's
just, as you say:

> The big question for the OP is, "So what?"  You want to scrape the
> data?  What have you tried?

I'd use wget and perl (or awk) as a first go but we have no idea what is
available to the OP.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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Can somebody give me a hint how I best solve this "Tony Johansson" <johansson.andersson@telia.com> - 2015-06-09 21:05 +0200
  Re: Can somebody give me a hint how I best solve this Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-06-09 20:33 +0100
    Re: Can somebody give me a hint how I best solve this Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 08:12 -0700
      Re: Can somebody give me a hint how I best solve this Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-06-10 16:22 +0100

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