NCalc is a mathematical expressions evaluator in .NET. NCalc can parse any expression and evaluate the result, including static or dynamic parameters and custom functions.

NCalc is a mathematical expressions evaluator in .NET. NCalc can parse any expression and evaluate the result, including static or dynamic parameters and custom functions.

For additional information on the technique we used to create this framework please read this article: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18880/State-of-the-Art-Expression-Evaluation.

For documentation here is the table of content:

• description: overall concepts, usage and extensibility points
• operators: available standard operators and structures
• values: authorized values like types, functions, ...
• functions: list of already implemented functions
• parameters: on how to use parameters expressions

Simple Expressions

Expression e = new Expression("2 + 3 * 5");
Debug.Assert(17 == e.Evaluate());

Evaluates .NET data types

Debug.Assert(123456 == new Expression("123456").Evaluate()); // integers
Debug.Assert(new DateTime(2001, 01, 01) == new Expression("#01/01/2001#").Evaluate()); // date and times
Debug.Assert(123.456 == new Expression("123.456").Evaluate()); // floating point numbers
Debug.Assert(true == new Expression("true").Evaluate()); // booleans
Debug.Assert("azerty" == new Expression("'azerty'").Evaluate()); // strings

Handles mathematical functional from System.Math

Debug.Assert(0 == new Expression("Sin(0)").Evaluate());
Debug.Assert(2 == new Expression("Sqrt(4)").Evaluate());
Debug.Assert(0 == new Expression("Tan(0)").Evaluate());

Evaluates custom functions

Expression e = new Expression("SecretOperation(3, 6)");
e.EvaluateFunction += delegate(string name, FunctionArgs args)
    {
        if (name == "SecretOperation")
            args.Result = (int)args.Parameters[0].Evaluate() + (int)args.Parameters[1].Evaluate();
    };

Debug.Assert(9 == e.Evaluate());

Handles unicode characters

Debug.Assert("経済協力開発機構" == new Expression("'経済協力開発機構'").Evaluate());
Debug.Assert("Hello" == new Expression(@"'\u0048\u0065\u006C\u006C\u006F'").Evaluate());
Debug.Assert("だ" == new Expression(@"'\u3060'").Evaluate());
Debug.Assert("\u0100" == new Expression(@"'\u0100'").Evaluate());

Define parameters, even dynamic or expressions

Expression e = new Expression("Round(Pow([Pi], 2) + Pow([Pi2], 2) + [X], 2)");

e.Parameters["Pi2"] = new Expression("Pi * [Pi]");
e.Parameters["X"] = 10;

e.EvaluateParameter += delegate(string name, ParameterArgs args)
  {
    if (name == "Pi")
    args.Result = 3.14;
  };

Debug.Assert(117.07 == e.Evaluate());

Caching in a distributed cache

This example uses Newtonsoft.Json.

Serializing

var compiled = Expression.Compile(expression, true);
var serialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(compiled, new JsonSerializerSettings
{
    TypeNameHandling = TypeNameHandling.All // We need this to allow serializing abstract classes
});

Deserializing

var deserialized = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<LogicalExpression>(serialized, new JsonSerializerSettings
{
    TypeNameHandling = TypeNameHandling.All
});

Expression.CacheEnabled = false; // We cannot use NCalc's built in cache at the same time.
var exp = new Expression(deserialized);
exp.Parameters = new Dictionary<string, object> {
    {"waterlevel", inputValue}
};

var evaluated = exp.Evaluate();

Pure asynchronous implementation of NCalc by Peter Liljenberg.

Extension functions for NCalc to handle many general functions,
including string functions, switch, if, in, typeOf, cast etc.
Developed by David, Dan and all at Panoramic Data.

Javascript Interpreter for .NET by Sébastien Ros, the author of NCalc library.
Runs on any modern .NET platform as it supports .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET 4.6.1 targets (and up).

A Typescript/Javascript port of NCalc.

NCalc 101 is a simple web application that allows you to try out the NCalc expression evaluator, developed by Panoramic Data..

Plugin of NCalc to JJMasterData, a runtime form generator from database metadata.

The project uses Nerdbank.GitVersioning tool to manage versions.
Each library build can be traced back to the original git commit.

1. Make sure that nbgv dotnet CLI tool is installed and is up to date
2. Run nbgv prepare-release to create a stable branch for the upcoming release, i.e. release/v1.0
3. Switch to the release branch: git checkout release/v1.0
4. Execute unit tests, update the README, release notes in csproj file, etc. Commit and push your changes.
5. Run dotnet pack -c Release and check that it builds Nuget packages with the right version number.
6. Run nbgv tag release/v1.0 to tag the last commit on the release branch with your current version number, i.e. v1.0.7.
7. Push tags as suggested by nbgv tool: git push origin v1.0.7
8. Go to github project page and create a release out of the last tag v1.0.7.
9. Verify that github workflow for publishing the nuget package has completed.
10. Switch back to master and merge the release branch.