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Old February 26th, 2003, 10:40 AM
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Storing & Using Operators

Hi

I have a situation where I need to store an operator (i.e. * or /)

I then want to retrieve this operator and use it in a calculation.

e.g.


Store * in a database


Retrieve the * from database
Assign * to a variable

Dim strVariable

strVariable = *

intResult = 1 strVariable 2 'Result being 2

Can anyone help please

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if you're just performing a one operator binary operation as in your example then just use
Code:
Public Function Calculate(ByVal operand1 As Double, ByVal operation As String, ByVal operand2 As Double
Dim retVal as Double
  Select Case operation
    Case "*": Let retVal = operand1 * operand2
    Case "/": Let retVal = operand1 / operand2
    Case Else:Call Err.Raise("todo")
  End Select: Let Calculate=retVal
If you need to parse a more complicated expression then you'll need to use a binary tree / series of recursive functions, I think

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