Matching math expression with regular expression?
- by Ethan
For example, these are valid math expressions:
a * b + c
-a * (b / 1.50)
(apple + (-0.5)) * (boy - 1)
And these are invalid math expressions:
--a *+ b @ 1.5.0 // two consecutive signs, two consecutive operators, invalid operator, invalid number
-a * b + 1) // unmatched parentheses
a) * (b + c) / (d // unmatched parentheses
I have no problem with matching float numbers, but have difficulty with parentheses matching. Any idea? If there is better solution than regular expression, I'll accept as well. But regex is preferred.
