expiration dates - CPAN::Forum

Posted on 2010-05-10 20:42:56.10714-07 by jaiguevara

expiration dates

Here's a question about expiration dates. When I run this code:

my $q=Finance::QuoteOptions->new('IBM'); die 'Retrieve Failed' unless $q->retrieve; print $_->{exp},"\n" foreach @{$q->data};

I get this:

201015 201016 201018 201121 201220 20100521

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Posted on 2010-05-10 20:50:23.728277-07 by jaiguevara in response to 12688

Re: expiration dates

Oops, I submitted the post before I wrote the question. Is there something I need to do to get the expiration dates in 'YYYYMMDD' format? It looks like I'm getting 'YYYYDD', except for the last which is for May 2010.

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Posted on 2010-05-10 21:02:49.595986-07 by kbocek in response to 12689

Re: expiration dates

I figured that was your question. :) Yep, looks like a problem. I'll look at this tomorrow. It's been awhile since I looked at the parsing code. It's possible Yahoo shifted things around with the new symbol scheme. I'll post here with anything I find. Kirk Bocek

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Posted on 2010-05-11 09:04:39.305781-07 by kbocek in response to 12690

Re: expiration dates

Fixed. Version 0.21 has been uploaded to CPAN. I have no idea how long it will take to get vetted and mirrored. Yahoo had changed the months in the date string at the top of the options tables from the short 3-letter version to a full version. I changed the code to parse the full month names. Thanks for catching this. Kirk Bocek

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Posted on 2010-05-11 11:09:52.662062-07 by jaiguevara in response to 12692

Re: expiration dates

fixed indeed. Thanks for taking the time to do it. - Jay

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