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Yet Another Math Parser (YAMP)

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Constructing a fast math parser using Reflection to do numerics like Matlab.
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;

namespace YAMP
{
	public abstract class Operator : IRegisterToken
    {
        #region Members

        string _op;
		int _level;
		bool _expect;
		bool _isList;

        #endregion

        #region ctor

        public Operator (string op) : this(op, 0, true)
		{
		}

		public Operator (string op, int level) : this(op, level, true)
		{
		}
		
		public Operator (string op, int level, bool expect)
		{
			_op = op;
			_level = level;
			_expect = expect;
		}

        #endregion

        #region Properties

        public bool IsList
		{
			get { return _isList; }
			set { _isList = value; }
		}

		public virtual string Input
		{
			get { return _op; }
		}
		
		public string Op
		{
			get { return _op; }
		}
		
		public int Level
		{
			get { return _level; }
		}

		public bool ExpectExpression
		{
			get { return _expect; }
		}

        #endregion

        #region Methods

        public virtual string Set(string input)
		{
			return input.Substring(_op.Length);
		}

        public abstract Operator Create();
		
		public abstract Value Evaluate(Expression[] expressions, Hashtable symbols);

		#region IRegisterToken implementation
		
		public void RegisterToken ()
		{
			Tokens.Instance.AddOperator(_op, this);
		}
		
		#endregion
		
		public override string ToString ()
		{
			return string.Format ("{0} [ Operator: Level = {1} ]", _op, _level);
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

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Florian lives in Munich, Germany. He started his programming career with Perl. After programming C/C++ for some years he discovered his favorite programming language C#. He did work at Siemens as a programmer until he decided to study Physics.

During his studies he worked as an IT consultant for various companies. After graduating with a PhD in theoretical particle Physics he is working as a senior technical consultant in the field of home automation and IoT.

Florian has been giving lectures in C#, HTML5 with CSS3 and JavaScript, software design, and other topics. He is regularly giving talks at user groups, conferences, and companies. He is actively contributing to open-source projects. Florian is the maintainer of AngleSharp, a completely managed browser engine.

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