web scraping

2008-04-28 Thread Alex Goor
I was hoping to write a simple program (if that's possible) to open a browser, go to a site, and scrape a piece of information from that site. For example, I was hoping to open a Safari of Firefox browser, go to nyt.com and scrape the Dow Jones Industrial Average which is on the homepage. Does

simple question

2008-04-27 Thread Alex Goor
i have a data set of stock orders and i want to count the number of unique stock symbols in the set. i have turned the data set into an array and based on the message spec, i can identify the stock symbols. but i don't know how to make sure i'm only counting unique ones. i had thought to do