expressions

[Dan H.]

Hello,
I have a need to take user inputted text such as:

13.5*(1./((1./5)-1.))**(1./4.17)

and evaluate to a number. What key words would I google on? Or are they
some decent object oriented books that you know of that cover this? Online
tutorials or sample source?

Thanks in advanced,
Dan

[Konrad Neitzel]

Re: expressions

Hi Dan!

"Dan H." <DapperDanH@NO. comcast.SsPpAaM m.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Maybe this link is of any use for you:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/matheval.asp

With kind regards,

Konrad

[Frank Oquendo]

Re: expressions

Dan H. wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
> I have a need to take user inputted text such as:
>
> 13.5*(1./((1./5)-1.))**(1./4.17)
>
> and evaluate to a number. What key words would I google on? Or are
> they some decent object oriented books that you know of that cover
> this? Online tutorials or sample source?[/color]

http://www.csharphelp.com/archives2/archive289.html

The above link will prove most helpful. It includes the source and is
both freely modifiable and distributable. It provides a powerful and
flexible framework with a number of built-in functions and even allows
you to add functions of your own. It also parses any number of
parameters to be fed to user-defined functions and passes them along
when invoking those functions.

The one spot of trouble I had with it was the expression parser. It was
rather flakey when it came to handling characters such as ":", " "
(space) and "_". I believe it was due to the author's use of character
scanning. I rewrote my copy of the code to use Regex.Split. Not only is
the code simpler and easier to modify but it's also much more
predictable. Should the expression parser prove to be a problem for you,
I'll be glad to forward you a copy of what I have.

--
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don't.

http://code.acadx.com

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[mikeb]

Re: expressions

Dan H. wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello,
> I have a need to take user inputted text such as:
>
> 13.5*(1./((1./5)-1.))**(1./4.17)
>
> and evaluate to a number. What key words would I google on? Or are they
> some decent object oriented books that you know of that cover this? Online
> tutorials or sample source?
>[/color]

If your users can live with JavaScipt expression syntax, take a look at

http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=OLq0IKBEDHA.2380%40TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl

and use the expression evaluator built into JScript.NET

The above expression in JavaScript would look like:

Math.Pow( 13.5*(1./((1./5)-1.)), (1./4.17))

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mikeb