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Evaluate-mathematical-expression

"Evaluate mathematical expression" https://www.codewars.com//kata/52a78825cdfc2cfc87000005/javascript by Ant Kaynak

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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 floating point 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.

Restricted APIs

NOTE: Both eval and Function are disabled.