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[slick704]

Hi eveyone,

ok i have had little experience programming messed around with perl, javascript, html, visual basic.

I have been working on creating a share price calculator in Excel which currently i have to input figures taken from the web or PDF documents. I wish to make it live so the figures can be automatically downloaded from the web or PDF (if possible) there are ways of doin this in excel but its not so accurate or i'm not good at it.

So could someone direct me to the most simple programming language that will allow me to take information from the web and then use it to make numerous calculations.

What is the best way to go about this?

Thanks for your help,
Ben

[Guest]

You could use PHP. It has XML parsing capabilities and you can load the results into a web page. I would avoid trying to get data from PDF documents though. That would be too much hassle. Getting data from HTML pages would be much easier.