Convert a numeric expression which is stored as string into integer in C#

[priravi]

Hi,

I'm having a numeric expression say

"((2*3)-(3*4+5))" returned from a method as a string value... now i have to evaluate the expression and store it in an integer vaariable.

Convert.toint or int.parse is not working and since i'm new to .net development i have no idea of how else to convert this.Please do help me regarding this

[Plater]

you will need to parse the string into your own set of grammer and perform the mathmatical operations yourself.

[priravi]

Thanks..i guess there is no other simpler way to do thi right?

[Plater]

Not unless you can find a way to import a function from some other language that does it?

[coolsti]

Interesting. I see I have been working too long with interpretive scripting languages (like Perl and PHP). Its easy to forget that something like an "eval" function doesn't exist in a compiled software language.

[r035198x]

Interesting. I see I have been working too long with interpretive scripting languages (like Perl and PHP). Its easy to forget that something like an "eval" function doesn't exist in a compiled software language.

If you do decide to go all the way with this then check out Jos' compiler series in the Java howTos section.

[coolsti]

If you do decide to go all the way with this then check out Jos' compiler series in the Java howTos section.

Nice link to lots of good info! Thanks! No, I am coming from compiled languages, so I am not a newby here (Fortran submitted as batch jobs using punch cards back in 1972 was my first, what a pain!) but it is easy to get used to some of what interpreted languages offer :):):)