math_parser 1.4.0

Process math expressions, like formulas or parts of equations, convert them to machine-readable form, and calculate them.

1.4.0

Custom Functions

• Define custom functions and redefine built-in functions when parsing an expression. See docs and example.
• Use MathNodeExpression.getPotentialFunctionNames() to detect potentially used functions in a string.
• Use period in the middle of custom variable and function names.
• Under-hood, functions now support multiple comma separated arguments, so you can supply multiple arguments to your custom function.
• Detect custom functions im math tree using MathExpression.getUsedFreeformFunctions().

Breaking changes

• MissingFunctionArgumentListException renamed to OutOfRangeFunctionArgumentListException
• MathNodeExpression.fromString() may throw other errors besides MathException
• MathNodeExpression.getPotentialVariableNames() is replaced by MathNodeExpression.getPotentialDefinable()
• Instead of log[base](arg), you should pass log(base, arg) syntax now
• Period is an allowed character in the middle of a variable name now

Misc.

• UnexpectedClosingBracketException and BracketsNotClosedException can now tell where the problem probably happened.
• New MathParseException's InvalidFunctionNameException, DuplicateDeclarationException, InvalidFunctionArgumentsDeclaration.

1.3.1

• Variable validation fix

1.3.0

Math Tree

• Important change: MathNode is now a class of MathExpression interface. Compared to MathNode, MathExpression may return null in calc() method.
• New: getUsedVariables() method for MathExpression and MathNode. This method goes down the math tree to find any uses of MathVariable and returns names of all variables.
• New: MathExpression object family - MathComparison:
  • MathComparisonEquation (=)
  • MathComparisonGreater (>)
  • MathComparisonLess (<)

Parsing

• New: MathNodeExpression.fromStringExtended() method allows you to interpret equations and comparisons. Compared to fromString, it returns MathExpression instead of MathNode, since comparisons can't guarantee result.
• New: MathNodeExpression.getPotentialVariableNames() analyzes given math expression string for possible use of variables. Refer to documentation for rough edges before using it.
• New: MathNodeExpression.builtInVariables gives a list of built-in predefined variable names.
• New: MathNodeExpression.isVariableNameValid() lets you check if the parser can work with a given name.

Misc.

• Changed input parameters type for CantProcessExpressionException.
• Small documentation fixes.

1.2.0

• Fix README.
• Moved integrating features to a separate package library math_parser_integrate.

1.1.0

• Custom variables support.
• MathFunctionXdeprecated.
• MathVariable introduced.
• You need to pass an instance of MathVariableValues instead of a num to the calc() function now.

1.0.0

• Initial version.