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NAME

Finance::Currency::Convert::KlikBCA - Convert currencies using data from KlikBCA/BCA

VERSION

This document describes version 0.07 of Finance::Currency::Convert::KlikBCA (from Perl distribution Finance-Currency-Convert-KlikBCA), released on 2014-09-05.

SYNOPSIS

 use Finance::Currency::Convert::KlikBCA qw(convert_currency);

 printf "1 USD = Rp %.0f\n", convert_currency(1, 'USD', 'IDR');

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

convert_currency($amount, $from, $to) => NUM

Currently can only handle conversion *to* IDR. Dies if given other currency.

Will warn if failed getting currencies from the webpage.

Currency rate is not cached (retrieved from the website every time). Employ your own caching.

Currently uses the Bank Notes rate.

Will return undef if no conversion rate is available for the requested currency.

Use get_currencies(), which actually retrieves and scrapes the source web page, if you need the more complete result.

convert_currency($n, $from, $to) -> any

Convert currency using KlikBCA.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • from* => str

  • n* => float

  • to* => str

Return value:

 (any)

get_currencies() -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Extract data from KlikBCA/BCA page.

No arguments.

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

 (any)

TODO

  • Parse last update time

SEE ALSO

http://www.klikbca.com/

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Finance-Currency-Convert-KlikBCA.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Finance-Currency-Convert-KlikBCA.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Finance-Currency-Convert-KlikBCA

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.