Re: math parser ?
mark wrote:
Does anyone knows any api or example for parsing and calculating math
expressions like this ?
(x+y)/(y+z)
I have found "JEP", but it's not free:-(
I can see 3 different approaches:
1) Use a library code that parses and evaluates the expression.
The basic technique is wellknow - split up in tokens, convert
from infix to postfix, evaluate via a stack. Other have already
provided URL's for such libraries. I think compiler-compiler
technology is overkill for the purpose (even though I did learn
Bison 20 years ago from such an example).
2) Write the expression in the language of an existing script
language and load a script interpreter for that. Since Java 1.6
that process has been standardized and Java ships with a
JavaScript engine. But many other languages are available.
3) Convert the string expression to a string with valid Java code,
compile it and load and call the resulting class. Since Java 1.6
it has been easy to do memory to memory compile.
Arne
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