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parse string of arithmetic operation and perform the operations
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input = "20+4+2-1" | |
class String | |
def is_i? | |
!!(self =~ /\A[0-9]+\z/) | |
end | |
end | |
def operation(op) | |
case op | |
when "+" then -> (a, b){a + b} | |
when "-" then -> (a, b){a - b} | |
else | |
p a,b,op | |
raise "no operation defined" | |
end | |
end | |
tokens = input.split(/(\d*)([-+])/).reject { |e| e.empty? } # => ["2", "+", "4", "+", "2"] | |
operaions_stack = tokens.map { |token| token.is_i? ? token.to_i : operation(token)} # => array of numbers and lambdas containing the operation to be performed | |
# inject an empty stack, and when stack size is 3 compute the result and put it back in stack | |
last_opp = operaions_stack.inject([]) do |mem, var| | |
mem = [mem.first.(mem[1], mem[2])] if mem.size == 3 | |
if var.is_a? Proc | |
mem.unshift(var) | |
else | |
mem << var | |
end | |
end | |
p last_opp.first.(last_opp[1], last_opp[2]) |
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