NAME

Finance::Currency::Convert::Yahoo - convert currencies using Yahoo

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::Currency::Convert::Yahoo;
$Finance::Currency::Convert::Yahoo::CHAT = 1;
$_ = Finance::Currency::Convert::Yahoo::convert(1,'USD','GBP');
print "Is $_\n" if defined $_;

DESCRIPTION

Using Finance.Yahoo.com, converts a sum between two currencies.

USE

Call the module's &convert routine, supplying three arguments: the amount to convert, and the currencies to convert from and to.

Codes are used to identify currencies: you may view them in the values of the %currencies hash, where keys are descriptions of the currencies.

In the event that attempts to convert fail, you will recieve undef in response, with errors going to STDERR, and notes displayed if the modules global $CHAT is defined.

In more detail, the module accesses http://finance.yahoo.com/m5?a=amount&s=start&t=to, where start is the currency being converted, to is the target currency, and amount is the amount being converted. The latter is a number; the former two codes defined in our %currencies hash. (Last checked 07 December 2001).

EXPORTS

None by default.

REVISIONS

Please see the enclosed file CHANGES.

SEE ALSO

LWP::UserAgent, HTTP::Request, HTML::TokeParser.

AUTHOR

Lee Goddard lgoddard@cpan.org.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) Lee Goddard, 2001 - All Rights Reserved.

This library is free software and may be used only under the same terms as Perl itself.