Re: Operation in String to Double conversion

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:19:47 -0400
Message-ID:
<nospam-64C7D2.13194715102012@news.aioe.org>
In article <3a63483c-4322-4bfb-8c28-2d528bf48443@googlegroups.com>,
 William Lopes <williamlopes.dev@gmail.com> wrote:

I have to do a conversion between String and Double object, but my
string is a mathematical operation like "100 + 10". Even when I make
a conversion using NumberFormat.getInstance of "100 + 10", my result
is 100.0 only.

I would like to do it without split my string of way manually.


Your distribution may already contain a suitable implementation of
javax.script.ScriptEngine:

    ScriptEngineManager mgr = new ScriptEngineManager();
    List<ScriptEngineFactory> factories = mgr.getEngineFactories();
    for (ScriptEngineFactory f : factories) {
        System.out.println(f);
    }

Selecting the available RhinoScriptEngine by extension

    ScriptEngine engine = mgr.getEngineByExtension("js");
    try {
        System.out.println(engine.eval("5 * 8 + 2"));
    } catch (ScriptException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace(System.err);
    }

prints the expected answer, 42.0.

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