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Parsing arithematic strings.



 
 
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Old October 25th, 2008, 03:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
zherman
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Default Parsing arithematic strings.

Hi all,

How can I parse arithematic strings and process the that contain with my MS
Access database. Eg if a string contains "1+2*(2+4)" would equate to 13.

Thanks for answering.
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Old October 25th, 2008, 03:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
Allen Browne
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Default Parsing arithematic strings.

"zherman" wrote in message
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How can I parse arithematic strings and process the that contain with my
MS
Access database. Eg if a string contains "1+2*(2+4)" would equate to 13.


Try adding Eval() around the expression.

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