September 13, 2008
Using Finance::Quote to watch exchange rates
Since I’m often receiving payments in USD I need to keep track of the USD/EUR exchange rates.
I don’t want to run any GUI apps for that though or visit web sites, so I just slightly adapted the Finance::Quote Perl module’s simple example to do what I need:
#!/usr/bin/perl use Finance::Quote; $q = Finance::Quote->new; $q->timeout(60); print $q->currency("USD","EUR")."\n";
A functional interface for trivial queries like that would be nice in any case. Finance::Quote has one but it’s deprecated; maybe the authors are Java zealots.