RE: text equation

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 04:39 PM 12/20/1999 -0600, you wrote:

I assumed that the question was to search for a parser/interpreter.  EVAL 
presumes that the formula exists at compile time.

Al


>What about eval?  Why would this not work?
>
>Bradley V. Stone
>BVS/Tools - www.bvstools.com
>Netshare400 - www.netshare400.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Panissard [mailto:EPanissard@idt.pf]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 6:22 PM
> > To: Mailing List AS400
> > Subject: text equation
> >
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I am looking for an RPG sub-program who can recognize and
> > calculate a text
> > equation like :
> >     (250*(12+45.5))-10
> >
> > the equation can contain : the 4 basic operation, decimal
> > point, multiple
> > parenthesis
> >
> > Eric Panissard
> > EPanissard@idt.pf
> >



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