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Real world activity - Finance

 

Parsing data is amazingly important/powerful. In this warmup activity you are going to parse the file of data to retrieve the important info. Look at this website. Start with this zip.

 

We want just a few things:

  • the date of last trade (it will always be the same)
  • the name/price of all 8 indexes (ie MSCIEAFE -> 1,553.26)

Note the only thing that changes are the price and date.

 

So in the end what I need is it to print out

On 11/27:
MSCIEAFE -> 1,553.26
MSCIEMEA -> 309.84
...


         

Also in your code I want the following variables:

String date;
double mscieafe, msciemea, msciem, mscieurope, mscila, mscipacific, msciacworld, msciworld;

 

all of which will be set to the appropriate values.

 

Also to change to a double from a String

double x = Double.parseDouble("34.44");

Note you cant have commas in a number before you convert.