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Usage

If you supply a NYSE stock ticker to the function. It will return a URL to that stock's listing on NYSE.com.

{{#invoke:Stock tickers|GetURL|ticker}}

Module usage

• {{New York Stock Exchange}}
• {{NYSE link}}
• {{NYSE American}}
• {{NYSE Arca}}

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local getArgs = require('Module:Arguments').getArgs
local p = {}

function p.GetURL(frame)
	local args = getArgs(frame)
	return p._GetURL(args)
end
 
function p._GetURL(args)
	local ticker = args[1]
	local exchange = args.exchange
	
	-- By default the exchange will be NYSE
	if not exchange then exchange = 'NYSE' end
	
	-- Get corrected ticker
	ticker = p.FormatTickerURL(ticker)
	
	-- NYSE offical URL
	url = 'http://www.nyse.com/quote/' .. exchangeCode[exchange] .. ':' .. ticker
	
	return url
end
 
function p.FormatTickerURL(ticker)
	
	-- Convert to upper case
	ticker = string.upper(ticker)
	
	-- NYSE.com formats for preferred shares
	-- Example: Input: PRE.PRD, Output: PREpD
	ticker = string.gsub(ticker, "%.PR", "p")
	
	return ticker
end

-- Get NYSE exchange codes
exchangeCode = {
	['NYSE'] = 'XNYS',
	['AMEX'] = 'XASE',
	['ARCA'] = 'ARCX',
}

return p