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 Brian, 
  
I wouldn't mind taking a stab at it.....this might 
be a way to update the US-Stock template that is offered and out of date by 
Amibroker... 
  
Thank you 
Anthony 
  ----- Original Message -----  
  
  
  Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:08 
  PM 
  Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: Extracting 
  symbol name from Yahoo, how? 
  
  
  I was bugged by the fact that the current tickers and 
  their names were hard to get from Yahoo as well. 
    
  If you are a VB.NET programmer, I wrote something awhile 
  back that pulls all of the Yahoo tickers (including the company names, sectors 
  and industries) into AB.  It does not work flawlessly (some of them end 
  up in the wrong sector), but a coder with an interest could debug it pretty 
  easily I'm sure.   
    
  I don't have a use for it anymore, but would be happy to 
  send you the source code if you want.  I built it with VB.NET 
  2003.  It sucks down the entire list (6000+, I think) in about five 
  minutes. 
    
  Brian  
  
  Hi Perry, 
  Thanks for the reply. Actually I am trying to 
  do just the opposite.  I have a bunch of symbols in my AB database that 
  have no names. I am  looking for a way to get the full names using the 
  symbols off the  Yahoo site. There are so many that it would not be 
  practical to do  this manually. so, I want to do this with a program. 
  
  Cheers, Barry
  --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Perry 
  Lentine" <lentino@xxxx>  wrote: > > Barry,  > 
   > Not sure what you are attempting to do.  But I have the full 
  name  from yahoo > in my database.  I can extract it with the 
  following: >  > Filter=1; > 
  AddTextColumn(FullName(),"FullName         
  ", 25); > AddTextColumn(Name(),"Ticker",1.0); > 
  SetOption("NoDefaultColumns",1); >  > Set range to last 1 day and 
  explore. >  > Hope this helps. >  > Perry 
  Lentine >  > -----Original Message----- > From: 
  amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]  On 
  Behalf > Of Barry Scarborough > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 
  8:14 AM > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [amibroker] 
  Extracting symbol name from Yahoo, how? >  > Given a symbol list 
  is there a way to extract the full name from  Yahoo using > a script 
  or Excel function? >  > I would also like to get other information 
  so I can fill out the  information > window but full name would 
  do. >  > Thanks, > Barry >  >  >  > 
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