[thechat] Programming Problem

Paul Cowan paul at wishlist.com.au
Thu Nov 8 23:21:09 CST 2001


some handsome fool wrote:
> Rather ugly, but would work. Might try doing it over the weekend..
> interesting idea.

Hmm.. just hit me: good idea here would be to use JavaScript.. then you can
build a string and call eval() (PHP might have similar.. don't know)

thus.. my loop from earlier, then
	str1 = a + op1 + b + op2 + c + op3 + d
	str2 = '(' + a + op1 + b + ')' op2 + c + op3 + d
	str3 = a + op1 + '(' + b + op2 + c + ')' + op3 + d

	if (eval(str1) == 24) {
		// print str1	
	}

	...

use arrays or something to make it nicer, obviously.

Paul





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