mbed publishes real time up-to-date FTSE100 index data and posts it to a 7 segment multipurpose mbed breakout board

Dependencies:   EthernetNetIf dispBoB mbed

Revision:
4:eaed26093c4c
Parent:
3:4ccc72cfec87
Child:
5:ce9188b5e787
--- a/FTSE100.cpp	Thu Jul 07 14:36:39 2011 +0000
+++ b/FTSE100.cpp	Thu Jul 07 14:57:38 2011 +0000
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@
             string str = txt.gets();            //load web page intop string
 
             char buf[10];                       //instantiate buffer and integer to store FTSE100
-            int value;                                  
+            string value;                                  
             str.copy(buf,9,0);                  //load buffer with chunk of web page
 
-            sscanf(buf, "%d", &value);          //scan until decimal point
+            sscanf(buf, "%s", value);          //scan until decimal point
             
             db.scroll("FTSE100", 0.2);          //print info to dispBoB
-            db.locate(1);
-            db.printf("%d", value);                    
+            db.locate(0);
+            printf("%s\n\r", value);                    
         }
         wait(2);                                //wait 2 seconds before looping, so we don't pester the servers too much
     }
@@ -42,4 +42,3 @@
 
 
 
-