Thanks, Doug. It definitely fixed the problem. I also found your perl script very interesting. I try to run it and got a libeay32.dll related problem, but I will try fix it.

Cheers,

Jeff

 
> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:45:37 -0600
> To: curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
> From: douglist_at_macnauchtan.com
> Subject: Re: Missing Format Variable
>
> Damn. I didn't get rid of all of the html that was confusing the original message. This should be clearer.
>
> At 23:35 +0000 10/6/09, Jinye Jeff Li wrote:
> >I am a new user of Curl. When I try download some data from the yahoo website, I got an "Missing >Format Variable" error. I hope someone can kindly point what is wrong. Here is the command I used:
>
> >curl http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=@%5EIXIC&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv&h=0.
>
> >Here is the return:
>
> >Missing Format Variable.
> >'f' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> >operable program or batch file.
> >'e' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> >operable program or batch file.
> >'h' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> >operable program or batch file.
>
> What's happening is that your shell is looking at the http string and doing things to it before curl gets to look at it.
>
> ? question marks, & ampersands, and that @ sign probably need to be protected from interpretation depending on which shell or other scripting language is in use.
>
> curl "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=@%5EIXIC&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv&h=0"
>
> should work better.
>
> <ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Excel/yahooquote.pl> Is an example that's almost what you want in perl.
>
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