Arithmetic to Functional Converter

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Jonathan Sullivan 2012-3-26

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I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to convert arithmetic to functional synatx. For example, I'd like to convert the string

'a+b'

to

'plus(a,b)'

Now, this was a very simple example. It gets a bit harder with more "complicated" expressions.

'a+b.*c'

becomes:

'plus(a,times(b,c))'

I assume MATLAB already does this, under the hood somewhere. There should be a way (either documented or not) to access this. Any insights?

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Walter Roberson 2012-3-26

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You might be able to get something useful by hacking the source to mtree:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/27340-what-do-you-think-of-cody-new-service-for-matlab-central#answer_40370

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Jonathan Sullivan 2012-3-27

This looks helpful. I'm going to dig into it and see if I can hack it up to suit my needs.

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owr 2012-3-27

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在 MATLAB Online 中打开

Are you just trying to evaluate algebraic statements provided in string format?

If so, try "eval":

>> a = 4
a =
       4
>> b = 6
b =
       6
>> str = 'a+b'
str =
a+b
>> eval(str)
ans =
      10

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Jonathan Sullivan 2012-3-27

No. What I am trying to do is to change current .m files so that they use bsxfun operation instead of the traditional operations. I've found myself on several occasions, painstakingly doing this by hand. It can be quite tedious and involve a lot of time troubleshooting, especially when the code has many nested algebraic functions. It is easy to put a parenthesis in the wrong spot.

Example:

(a+b.*c.^d).*x - y.*z.^x

Becomes:

bsxfun(@minus,bsxfun(@times,bsxfun(@plus,a,bsxfun(@times,b,bsxfun(@power,c,d))),x),bsxfun(@times,y,bsxfun(@power,z,x)))

I just thought it would be nice to have a function that will do it for me.

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John D'Errico 2012-3-27

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Its easy, IF you look at this the right way.

First, pre-parse the expression to determine that 'a+b.*c' has three variables in it, a, b, and c. Define objects a, b and c. Now overload the plus and times operators to actually use bsxfun.

Finally, let MATLAB do the operation, using an eval. You CAN make this work, but you will need to be careful and think it out.

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Jonathan Sullivan 2012-3-27

Yea. I'm aware that I can overload the functions and it'll work. But I'd like it to be stand alone. I tend to port my code over to may different people across many different machines. I would prefer to not have to define new objects and overload these functions on all their machines.

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anisa 2012-5-31

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Hi, Did you manage to find a method in MATLAB that already implements this. I am trying to do the same thing I am sure that somewhere in matlab there should already be a method. If you could let me know that would be greatly appreciated.