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Evaluate/Calculate

This is submitted as two extension methods as they work together. It is based off of an class designed by sfabriz @ http://www.osix.net/modules/article/?id=761 He has another class that does something a little different but I thought this was a wonderful piece of code so encapsulated it here. I only claim authorship of the conversion and not the underlying logic.

Source

/// <summary>
/// JavaScript style Eval for simple calculations
/// http://www.osix.net/modules/article/?id=761
/// This is a safe evaluation.  IE will not allow for injection.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="e"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static string Evaluate(this string e)
{
    Func<string, bool> VerifyAllowed = e1 =>
    {
        string allowed = "0123456789+-*/()%.,";
        for (int i = 0; i < e1.Length; i++)
        {
            if (allowed.IndexOf("" + e1[i]) == -1)
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    };

    if (e.Length == 0) { return string.Empty; }
    if (!VerifyAllowed(e)) { return "String contains illegal characters"; }
    if (e[0] == '-') { e = "0" + e; }
    string res = "";
    try
    {
        res = Calculate(e).ToString();
    }
    catch
    {
        return "The call caused an exception";
    }
    return res;
}

/// <summary>
/// JavaScript Eval Calculations for simple calculations
/// http://www.osix.net/modules/article/?id=761
/// This is an unsafe calculation. IE may allow for injection.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="e"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static double Calculate(this string e)
{
    e = e.Replace(".", ",");
    if (e.IndexOf("(") != -1)
    {
        int a = e.LastIndexOf("(");
        int b = e.IndexOf(")", a);
        double middle = Calculate(e.Substring(a + 1, b - a - 1));
        return Calculate(e.Substring(0, a) + middle.ToString() + e.Substring(b + 1));
    }
    double result = 0;
    string[] plus = e.Split('+');
    if (plus.Length > 1)
    {
        // there were some +
        result = Calculate(plus[0]);
        for (int i = 1; i < plus.Length; i++)
        {
            result += Calculate(plus[i]);
        }
        return result;
    }
    else
    {
        // no +
        string[] minus = plus[0].Split('-');
        if (minus.Length > 1)
        {
            // there were some -
            result = Calculate(minus[0]);
            for (int i = 1; i < minus.Length; i++)
            {
                result -= Calculate(minus[i]);
            }
            return result;
        }
        else
        {
            // no -
            string[] mult = minus[0].Split('*');
            if (mult.Length > 1)
            {
                // there were some *
                result = Calculate(mult[0]);
                for (int i = 1; i < mult.Length; i++)
                {
                    result *= Calculate(mult[i]);
                }
                return result;
            }
            else
            {
                // no *
                string[] div = mult[0].Split('/');
                if (div.Length > 1)
                {
                    // there were some /
                    result = Calculate(div[0]);
                    for (int i = 1; i < div.Length; i++)
                    {
                        result /= Calculate(div[i]);
                    }
                    return result;
                }
                else
                {
                    // no /
                    string[] mod = mult[0].Split('%');
                    if (mod.Length > 1)
                    {
                        // there were some %
                        result = Calculate(mod[0]);
                        for (int i = 1; i < mod.Length; i++)
                        {
                            result %= Calculate(mod[i]);
                        }
                        return result;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        // no %
                        return double.Parse(e);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Example

string e = "10+10*4".Evaluate();
double d = "10+10*4".Calculate();

Author: Daniel Gidman

Submitted on: 21 dec. 2010

Language: C#

Type: System.String

Views: 6539