Web Queries

[a_katbi17]

I am looking for a language that will allow me to do the following:
1)Get information off a website or server - for example a price of a computer part off pricewatch or the closing price of a stock
2)Store all of the results into a database
3)Display results in a Windows Application

What language should i study to be capable of doing these things?

thanks
ak

[Hola hoop]

If your using databases i would say either ASP or SQL are the languages to go for

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[chubtub]

Scraping web pages is not fun at all. Each one has to be custom built. It is not a fun process. Hope the pages you are scraping do not change thier format that often.

[CompGeek01]

PERL and an SQL database. No other (popular) language will make this as easy as the hundreds of PERL modules there are out there.

[Euthorus]

PHP + MySQL
In my opinion PHP can just as robust as Perl for what you are hoping to do. Although as it has been mentioned - thousands of ready to go Perl modules do make a strong argument.