Re: Function editor

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:59:12 -0700
Message-ID:
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Marek Staniewski wrote:

In an Excell sheet it is possible to write a data directly into the cell
or in this cell we can write a function.

I am looking for some way to make some similar editor for a function.

For example a user writes function:
= 5(180+3*43)
or
= 5(A2+3*A3) where A2 and A3 are some variables

The program task is to read the fuction, check if it does not contain
any errors and calculate the result.
Deos abybody know if there is any library available somewhere with ready
routines?
It does not look as very complicated but if we take into consideration
all possible way of writing or eventual subfunctions (SUM, AND,OR etc)
then it may be quite complex task.


I asked a similar question a few months ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/ab7cb0a42d4c2ed7

The net result is that I am using the javax.script package, creating
a script engine with:
new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByExtension("js");

Patricia

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