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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">>i want to write a program that reads simple arithematic epressions and calculates the result.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">>for example input "1*3+2" should generate "5'" as result<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">So what is stopping you?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Snark aside, this can get really complicated unless you make some well
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">defined rules. This becomes difficult especially when you think about<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">whether you want to support order of operations. Should “1+3*2” generate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“7” or “8”? Do you want to support longer expressions or just 2 operations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Personally, if I were learning the language I would make it do 1 operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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