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The security you had trouble with is QCSCRX. I get:
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump -v yahoo_json
QCSCRX
Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
symbol: QCSCRX <=== required
date: 06/23/2020 <=== recommended
currency: USD <=== required
last: 267.395 <=\
nav: <=== one of these
price: <=/
timezone: <=== optional
All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock QCSCRX
stock field value
----- ----- -----
QCSCRX currency: USD
QCSCRX date: 06/23/2020
QCSCRX exchange: Sourced from Yahoo Finance (as JSON)
QCSCRX isodate: 2020-06-23
QCSCRX last: 267.395
QCSCRX method: yahoo_json
QCSCRX name: QCSCRX (CREF Social Choice Account - R1)
QCSCRX success: 1
QCSCRX symbol: QCSCRX
QCSCRX type: MUTUALFUND
Use of uninitialized value in printf at
/Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gnc-fq-dump line 138.
QCSCRX volume:
It seems unlikely that it would be anything other than a temporary issue at
Yahoo!.
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Jun 23, 2020, at 4:21 PM, uhopfer@gmail <uhop...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> thanks for getting back. I must have gotten gnc-path-check with an earlier
> version of gnucash. The file (attached) is dated 7/29/2017. I updated gnucash
> a few times over the years. This time I went from version 3.3 to stable 3.10
> from this Spring.
>
> The 3 TIAA-CREF symbols are QCGLRX, QCSCIX, QCSCRX. TIAA-CREF does not return
> any quote for these.
>
> I have attached 3 files with the Stdout and Stderr for yahoo direct queries
> and for gnc-fq-dump queries, one when successful, one when gnc-fq-dump fails.
>
> In both gnc-fq-dump cases, I get error messages indicating that the
> yahoo_json perl module has problems interpreting the yahoo output. I do not
> know whether they are meaningful or significant. Whether the gnc-fq-dump
> query fails or succeeds appears somewhat random, now that I tried more often
> with queries.
>
> Let me know what you think that I can do.
>
> Ulrich
>
>
>
> On 6/22/2020 10:54 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 22, 2020, at 6:08 PM, uhopfer@gmail <uhop...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I had to reinstall strawberry perl and finance::quote (1.49) and now can
>>> download again all my quotes except for 2 symbols using alpha vantage,
>>> vanguard, or yahoo_json.
>>>
>>> I discovered that gnc-path-check comes back with a programming error
>>> message (below):
>>>
>>> perl gnc-path-check -v 2>temp.txt
>>>
>>> Can't use global $_ in "my" at gnc-path-check line 60, near "my $_ "
>>> Execution of gnc-path-check aborted due to compilation errors.
>>>
>>> That error needs to be fixed, but I do not know any perl.
>>>
>>> I wondered whether the error could be related to my new problem of
>>> retrieving 2 of 3 TIAA-CREF symbols with yahoo_json that I used to be able
>>> to retrieve automatically, but now can only retrieve manually. In other
>>> words, yahoo still has information on the symbols, but f::q does not
>>> retrieve it. The automatic retrieval works for 1, but not the other 2
>>> sumbols. gnc-fq-dump gives the same anwer.
>>>
>> Dunno where you got gnc-path-check, but it wasn't from us. We have a
>> gnc-fq-check, gnc-fq-dump, gnc-fq-helper, and gnc-fq-update. No
>> gnc-path-check.
>>
>> What same answer does gnc-fq-dump give, that the symbol isn't found? What
>> are the two symbols? Have you tried price source tiaacref?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
> --
> Ulrich Hopfer
> 2915 Coleridge Rd.
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> 216-932-2437
> uhop...@gmail.com
>
> <gnc-path-check.txt><gnc-fq-dump failure..txt><gnc-fq-dump success.txt><yahoo
> direct query.txt>
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