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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Another question in the popular family of “what
is the best component suite for X?”…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Can anyone recommend a good expression parser/evaluator?
Ideally a bit more than just mathematical expressions, we would like it to
handle logical evaluation (ie Booleans), IF statements and ideally strings (primarily
for comparison within boolean IF conditions but if the parser/evaluator could
handle strings as results then all the better). We don’t need any loop
constructs or more advanced program control constructs. We would probably like
to be able to define our own expression functions but the user probably doesn’t
need to be able to.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Quality (ie reliability), functionality and
availability of source code are our main criteria here. Price isn’t going
to be so much of an issue unless they are hideously expensive or there are
multiple good options to choose between.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-NZ style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any recommendations? Warnings on what to avoid?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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