I have a simple form in javascript. I'm going to calculate a formula.
I want to select elements by id and then detects operators and finally calculate final result.
<p>
V1: <input id="v1" />
</p>
<p>
V2: <input id="v2" />
</p>
<p>
V3: <input id="v3" />
</p>
<p>
V4: <input id="v4" />
</p>
<p>
Fromula: <input id="f1" />
</p>
<p>
<button id="doAction">
Calculate
</button>
</p>
Example expression is: (v1+v2)*v3-(v4-v1)/v2
You can use eval and automatic mapping by ids (no need to call getElementById) to have that implementation
doAction.addEventListener("click", () => {
const formula = f1.value
.replaceAll("v1", v1.value || 0)
.replaceAll("v2", v2.value || 0)
.replaceAll("v3", v3.value || 0)
.replaceAll("v4", v4.value || 0)
result.innerHTML = eval(formula)
})
<p>
V1: <input id="v1" />
</p>
<p>
V2: <input id="v2" />
</p>
<p>
V3: <input id="v3" />
</p>
<p>
V4: <input id="v4" />
</p>
<p>
Formula: <input id="f1" />
</p>
<p id="result">
</p>
<p>
<button id="doAction">
Calculate
</button>
</p>
But one thing you need to be aware of, eval is not safe 100%, if you don't protect your code properly, somebody may inject malicious scripts. Here is the sample case
eval("alert('Not safe')")
If you want to have a safer way, you need to have a function to convert strings to operators with numbers like this
Finally I found this solution:
var doAction = document.getElementById('doAction');
doAction.addEventListener('click', (s, e) => {
var scope=expressionArray("(v1+v2)*v3-v4");
var formula = document.getElementById('f1').value;
const result = math.evaluate(formula, scope)
console.log(result);
});
function expressionArray(init)
{
var text="";
var split_var = init.split(/[*-/+()]+/);
var obj={};
split_var.forEach((s,e)=>{
if(document.getElementById(s))
{
obj[s]=document.getElementById(s).value;
}
});
return obj;
}