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Evaluate Mathematical Expression

Instructions

Given a mathematical expression as a string you must return the result as a number.

Numbers

Number may be both whole numbers and/or decimal numbers. The same goes for the returned result.

Operators

You need to support the following mathematical operators:

  • Multiplication *
  • Division / (as true division)
  • Addition +
  • Subtraction -

Operators are always evaluated from left-to-right, and * and / must be evaluated before + and -.

Parentheses

You need to support multiple levels of nested parentheses, ex. (2 / (2 + 3.33) * 4) - -6

Whitespace

There may or may not be whitespace between numbers and operators.

An addition to this rule is that the minus sign (-) used for negating numbers and parentheses will never be separated by whitespace. I.e., all of the following are valid expressions:

1-1    // 0
1 -1   // 0
1- 1   // 0
1 - 1  // 0
1- -1  // 2
1 - -1 // 2

6 + -(4)   // 2
6 + -( -4) // 10

And the following are invalid expressions:

1 - - 1    // Invalid
1- - 1     // Invalid
6 + - (4)  // Invalid
6 + -(- 4) // Invalid

Validation

You do not need to worry about validation - you will only receive valid mathematical expressions following the above rules.

Notes

eval and exec are disallowed in your solution.