Thread: cURL and piping

For some reason I can't find a development package for cURL for mingw32 so I decided I would just pipe the output to my program, simple enough?

What I want my program to do is grab some stock information from yahoo's finance service. So I tested out curl to find the right command:

Code:

curl "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=S&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv"
"S",4.44,"9/24/2010","4:00pm",+0.08,4.46,4.47,4.41,31068484

The output is formatted perfectly for me, as a csv file.

Then I pipe it to my program, which just cycles through all of the argv's for the time being is this is what I get, COMPLETELY different.

Code:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int i;
    printf("argc=%d\n", argc);
    for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
        printf("%s\n", argv[i]);
    
    return 0;
}

OUTPUT:

Code:

curl "http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=S&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv" | stock.exe
argc=1
stock.exe
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    61    0    61    0     0    435      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   782

Any ideas?

Ah, just learned something new. When you pipe something, it goes into stdin, not argv.
*Facepalm*