import java.io.*; import java.net.*; public class stock2 { public static void main(String a[]) throws Exception { if (a.length!=1) { System.out.println("usage: java Stock2 "); System.exit(0); } String yahoo = "http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=" + a[0]; URL url = new URL(yahoo); URLConnection conn = url.openConnection(); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( conn.getInputStream())); String s=null; int i=0,j=0; while ( (s=in.readLine()) != null) { if ((i=s.indexOf("")) < 0) continue; j = s.indexOf(""); s=s.substring(i+8,j); System.out.println(a[0] +" is at "+s); break; } } }