Evaluating a string of simple mathematical expressions [closed]

Answer 1

Here comes another one:

Shell script (using sed+awk)

Number of characters: 295

obfuscated:

e(){ a="$1";while echo "$a"|grep -q \(;do eval "`echo "$a"|sed 's/\(.*\)(\([^()]*\))\(.*\)/a="\1\`e \"\2\"\`\3"/'`";done; echo "$a"|sed 's/\([-+*/]\) *\(-\?\) */ \1 \2/g'|awk '{t=$1;for(i=2;i

readable

e () {
    a="$1"
    # Recursively process bracket-expressions
    while echo "$a"|grep -q \(; do
        eval "`echo "$a"|
            sed 's/\(.*\)(\([^()]*\))\(.*\)/a="\1\`e \"\2\"\`\3"/'`"
    done
    # Compute expression without brackets
    echo "$a"|
        sed 's/\([-+*/]\) *\(-\?\) */ \1 \2/g'|
        awk '{
            t=$1;
            for(i=2;i

Test:

str='  2.45 / 8.5  *  9.27   +    (   5   *  0.0023  ) '
echo "$str"|bc -l
e "$str"

Result:

2.68344117647058823526
2.68344