Parsing Mathematical operations

I am tring to write an application which requires the parsing of a user
defined mathematical operation, writen in standard mathematical
notation, for both vector and scalar values, into a line of code.




eg
--vectors a b c
--scalars e f g


--input--->ans = (f*(a.b)+e*g)*c


should be transformed to a string such that:


--output--->ans = VecScalarMult(c,(f*(VecScalarProduct(a,b)+eg))


Where VecScalarMult and VecScalarProduct are functions


Does anyone have experience of this type of parsing, or do you have any
suggestions for where I could find info?




Many thanks
Rob Aspin
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/aspinr.html
[Unless there's something I'm missing here, this looks like a straightforward
infix to prefix conversion, covered in any intro compilers text. -John]
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