Order of operations between powers and multiplications about matex HOT 5 OPEN

In these cases, you must use the mathematical association operator. It would look like this:

$evaluator = new \Matex\Evaluator();
$evaluator->execute('4*(3^2)'); // returns 36
$evaluator->execute('45/(3^2)'); // returns 5

from matex.

This would indeed return the correct result but it does not really solve my problem. My app uses randomly generated math expressions (which are later displayed in Latex format) so adding parenthesis where necessary would be quite a painful process.
Besides, PEDMAS is the most commonly accepted convention for the order of operation (as far as I know). I think it would be to this library's benefit to follow it.

from matex.

I think this is a pretty fundamental flaw in an expression evaluator, and agree implementing it in the package itself rather than working around it would be preferable. I'm taking a look at the source trying to understand where the order of operations is defined, but I'm having a hard time.

from matex.

If you need something much more complete to work with complex and dynamic expressions, I advise you to use this symfony component: Expression Language

https://gist.github.com/mccarlosen/ddf4b923da2a49442ae2344b850e282c

from matex.

If you need something much more complete to work with complex and dynamic expressions, I advise you to use this symfony component: Expression Language

https://gist.github.com/mccarlosen/ddf4b923da2a49442ae2344b850e282c

Thank you, that is for sure a very viable alternative, but doesn't change the fact that this is a mathematical expression evaluator, and as such it should be able to evaluate according to the standard order of operations.

from matex.