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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red
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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

by Ivo Balbaert
May 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
252 pages
6h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Downloading currency exchange rates

At the end of the Reading and writing files section, we learned how to download files from the internet. Let's use this knowledge to download some currency exchange rates data from Floatrates (http://www.floatrates.com/). As one of its many services, this website offers the current exchange rates of any currency compared to most common currencies. These rates can be obtained in XML or JSON format. For example, the URL  http://www.floatrates.com/daily/USD.xml shows a spreadsheet layout of currencies compared to the US dollar (USD):

For example, today (Mar 23, 2018) it shows that 1 USD is worth 0.81191502 ...

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