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I have a string say "1+(2+3)" which i want to evaluate. Are there any in built,ready made Java classes that can be used here?
Or do i have to parse it individually?
 
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when it is already a string it is one object and can not be used for evaluating as such. since +,( are not the arithmatic symbols here they are just the characters that put together form a string.

i belive you should parse it and then do the evaluation/arithmatic on it.
 
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There are lots of parsers available written in Java. For bottom-up parsing try a combination of JFlex and CUP. For top-down parsing try ANTLR.
 
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