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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Validation of variable Post 302543881 by aLHaNz on Tuesday 2nd of August 2011 10:36:23 AM
Old 08-02-2011
Validation of variable
Hey people, I got small little error which says I entered too many argument in the if else list.
The stock contains a list of information.
The 4th field consist of the quantity available, so I'm trying to alert the user that the stock is less than 3 and needed to restock.
Is this the correct way to do, cuz I'm having errors..

Code:
function alert_stock
{
    qtyA=`cat stockDB.txt | cut -d: -f4`
    if [ $qtyA -lt 3 ]; then

    echo $qtyA

    fi
}

 

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finance::quote::financecanada

Finance::Quote::FinanceCanada(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			Finance::Quote::FinanceCanada(3pm)

NAME

       Finance::Quote::FinanceCanada - Obtain stock and mutual fund prices from finance.canada.com

SYNOPSIS

	   use Finance::Quote;

	   $q = Finance::Quote->new;

	   # Can failover to other methods
	   %quotes = $q->fetch("canada", "stock_fund-code");

	   # Use this module only
	   %quotes = $q->fetch("financecanada", "stock_fund-code");

DESCRIPTION

       This module obtains information about Canadian Stock and Mutual Funds from finanace.canada.com.	The information source "canada" can be
       used if the information source is unimportant, or "financecanada" to specifically use finance.canada.com.

STOCK_FUND-CODE
       Canadian stocks/mutual funds do not have a unique symbol identifier.  This module uses the symbols as used on finance.canada.com.  The
       simplest way to fetch the ID for a particular stock/fund is to go to finance.canada.com, search for your particular stock or mutual fund,
       and note the symbol ID.	This is helpfully provided by the site in their returned HTML quote.

LABELS RETURNED

       Information available from financecanada may include the following labels:

       method source name symbol currency date nav last price

SEE ALSO

       Finance Canada.com website - http://finance.canada.com/

       Finance::Quote

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-06					Finance::Quote::FinanceCanada(3pm)
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