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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Don't Quote Me On This... Post 302094900 by Perderabo on Wednesday 1st of November 2006 10:28:16 PM
Old 11-01-2006
The asterisk is special in a RE and it will not match an asterisk unless it is backslashed.

Code:
$ echo "a * b" | grep "a * b"
$ echo "a * b" | grep "a \* b"
a * b
$

 

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Finance::Quote::USFedBonds(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Finance::Quote::USFedBonds(3)

NAME
Finance::Quote::USFedBonds Get US Federal Bond redemption values directly from the treasury at www.publicdebt.treas.gov/sav/savvalue.htm SYNOPSIS
use Finance::Quote; $q = Finance::Quote->new; # Don't know anything about failover yet... DESCRIPTION
Access redemption values for US Federal Bonds from the treasury. Bonds should be identified in the following manner (as per www.piblicdebt.treas.gov/sav/savfrmat.htm): SERIES(1) : I/E/N/S ISSUEDATE(6) : YYYYMM SEPERATOR(1) : "." REDEMPTIONDATE(6) : YYYYMM e.g. E200101.200501 Would have liked to get data from this source (http://wwws.publicdebt.treas.gov/BC/SBCPrice), but I couldn't work out how to get the POST to pass the IssueDate, for some reason the <input> tags are messed on that page??? LABELS RETURNED
... SEE ALSO
Treasury website - http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/ Finance::Quote AUTHOR Stephen Langenhoven (langenhoven@users.sourceforge.net), see module ZA for further acknowledgements. perl v5.12.1 2009-10-05 Finance::Quote::USFedBonds(3)
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