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A basic parser written in Haskell. Written as a learning exercise.
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import Data.List | |
-- Evaluate a postfix expression | |
evalPostfix :: (Num a, Read a) => String -> a | |
evalPostfix = head . foldl comb [] . words | |
where | |
comb (x:y:ys) "*" = (x * y) : ys | |
comb (x:y:ys) "+" = (x + y) : ys | |
comb (x:y:ys) "-" = (y - x) : ys | |
comb xs s = read s : xs | |
-- Apply the shunting-yard algorithm to turn an infix expression | |
-- into a postfix expression. | |
shunt :: [String] -> [String] -> [String] -> [String] | |
shunt o p [] = (reverse o) ++ p | |
shunt o [] (x:xs) | |
| x `elem` ["*", "+", "-", "("] = shunt o [x] xs | |
| x == ")" = error "mismatched parenthesis" | |
| otherwise = shunt (x:o) [] xs | |
shunt o (p:ps) (x:xs) | |
| x == "(" = shunt o (x:p:ps) xs | |
| x == ")" = case (span (/= "(") (p:ps)) of | |
(as, b:bs) -> shunt (as ++ o) bs xs | |
| x == "*" = shunt o (x:p:ps) xs | |
| x `elem` ["+", "-"] = case (p) of | |
"*" -> shunt (p:o) (x:ps) xs | |
"(" -> shunt o (x:p:ps) xs | |
otherwise -> shunt (p:o) (x:ps) xs | |
| otherwise = shunt (x:o) (p:ps) xs | |
-- | Convert an infix expression to postfix | |
toPostfix :: String -> String | |
toPostfix = intercalate " " . shunt [] [] . words | |
-- | Evaluate an infix expression | |
-- Note that parenthesis must have a space on either | |
-- RIGHT: 1 - ( 2 + 3 ) | |
-- WRONG: 1 - (2 + 3) | |
eval :: (Num a, Read a) => String -> a | |
eval = evalPostfix . toPostfix |
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