Calculator

11 Oct 2006 11:50 PM

Jeff Dillon

Granted this question is for a take-home pre-screening interview question.
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I need to take an input string like (4 * (5 + 6.7) - 81 / 9) and calculate
the result.

I was thinking of using reflection or similar to actually let VB do the
work, like an execute.indirect statement:

dim result as double = <execute.indirect(sInput)>

Any thoughts? Otherwise, I guess I'll have to implement a stack

Jeff

12 Oct 2006 12:39 AM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Jeff Dillon" <jeffdil***@hotmail.com> schrieb:
> I need to take an input string like (4 * (5 + 6.7) - 81 / 9) and
> calculate the result.
>
> I was thinking of using reflection or similar to actually let VB do the
> work, like an execute.indirect statement:

See:

<URL:http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb/msg/60cde209714dfbb0>

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