Evaluate dice rolling notation strings

Question

Rules

Write a function that accepts string as a parameter, returning evaluated value of expression in dice notation, including addition and multiplication.

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Answer 1

perl, no evals, 144 chars, works multiple times, supports multiple dice rolls

sub e{($c=pop)=~y/+* /PT/d;$b='(\d+)';map{$a=0while$c=~s!$b?$_$b!$d=$1||1;$a+=1+int rand$2for 1..$d;$e=$2;/d/?$a:/P/?$d+$e:$d*$e!e}qw(d T P);$c}

Expanded version, with comments

sub f {
    ($c = pop); #assign first function argument to $c
    $c =~ tr/+* /PT/d;  #replace + and * so we won't have to escape them later.
                        #also remove spaces
    #for each of 'd','T' and 'P', assign to $_ and run the following
    map {
        #repeatedly replace in $c the first instance of    with
        #the result of the code in second part of regex, capturing both numbers and
        #setting $a to zero after every iteration
        $a=0 while $c =~ s[(\d+)?$_(\d+)][
            $d = $1 || 1;   #save first parameter (or 1 if not defined) as later regex 
                            #will overwrite it
            #roll $d dice, sum in $a
            for (1..$d)
            {
                $a += 1 + int rand $2;
            }
            $e = $2;        #save second parameter, following regexes will overwrite
            #Code blocks return the value of their last statement
            if (/d/)
            {
                $a; #calculated dice throw
            }
            elsif (/P/)
            {
                $d + $e;
            }
            else
            {
                $d * $e;
            }
        ]e;
    } qw(d T P);
    return $c;
}

EDIT cleaned up, updated explanation to latest version