08-21-2009
Hi.
This page (badly titled)
UNIX Shell Quote has a comparison table of basic metacharacters (and the site has a number of other good tutorials). Newer shells (bash, zsh, ksh) have a more extensive syntax, e.g. for dealing with arrays, string manipulation, etc. For those, you will need to look at man pages, which for shells, are often quite long ... cheers, drl
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finance::quote::fidelity
Finance::Quote::Fidelity(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Finance::Quote::Fidelity(3pm)
NAME
Finance::Quote::Fidelity - Obtain information from Fidelity Investments.
NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE
This module is currently non-functional.
SYNOPSIS
use Finance::Quote;
$q = Finance::Quote->new;
%info = Finance::Quote->fetch("fidelity","FBGRX");
%info = Finance::Quote->fetch("fidelity_direct","FBGRX");
DESCRIPTION
This module obtains information from Fidelity Investments, http://www.fidelity.com/. This module is loaded by default on the
Finance::Quote object. It is also possible to load this module explicitly by passing "Fidelity" as one of Finance::Quote->new()'s
parameters.
The "fidelity" fetch method may make use of failover modules. The "fidelity_direct" method will only obtain information directly from
Fidelity.
Information returned by this module is governed by Fidelity Investment's terms and conditions.
LABELS RETURNED
The following labels may be returned by Finance::Quote::Fidelity: exchange, name, number, nav, change, ask, date, yield, price.
SEE ALSO
Fidelity Investments, http://www.fidelity.com/
Finance::Quote::Yahoo::USA;
perl v5.14.2 2012-05-06 Finance::Quote::Fidelity(3pm)