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Help on design

Hello everyone,

I just recently got a new job for a startup company. For my first project, they want me to design a program that automatically retrieves information from a webpage(for example like taking stock quotes from etrade) and put it into a database. I have no idea how to do that :( I have no exsprience with SQL or any database programming languages. I also don't know c# that well but I have a solid understanding of c++. So heres my question(s):

a) I how would I retrieve information from a webpage; Should I use Macros ?

b) Do you think I should learn c# or will I be able to do this with visual c++ ?

c) Whats the most efficient way to get this done ?

Thanks for you time
[735 byte] By [kumar310] at [2007-11-20 11:54:22]
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# 1 Re: Help on design
Sorry, I can't answer your questions - but I doubt that C++ is a good language for this kind of thing. Wouldn't you be better off writing it in Java or something?
John E at 2007-11-11 4:02:19 >
# 2 Re: Help on design
a) I how would I retrieve information from a webpage; Should I use Macros ?If you have a solid understanding of C++, you should know that macros will do very little to help your problem, so I do not understand this question.
b) Do you think I should learn c# or will I be able to do this with visual c++ ?Coding this from scratch is probably a very bad decision, so look for libraries either for C++ or for C#, the latter ones might be available in the .NET framework.
c) Whats the most efficient way to get this done ?PERL along with LWP and DBI.
treuss at 2007-11-11 4:03:19 >
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