Re: Parsing Mathematical operations

Rob Aspin wrote:
>
> 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.


Information about parsing methods can be found in books about compiler
construction. I don't know which books are currently considered to be the
best. When I learned about this some years ago, I liked "Crafting A
Compiler" by Fisher/LeBlanc (Benjamin/Cummings) most. Many people consider
the dragon book by Aho et al. to be the standard, but unless there was a
thorougly revised version recently I wouldn't recommend it that much, looked
quite outdated.


If you prefer a less heavy-weight book, the one by Wirth isn't bad
either.
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Reto Koradi (kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch, http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/~kor)
[There's a list of reviews of intro compiler books in the FAQ. -John]
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