Question

Does anyone know which predefined functions (e.g ABS function) are included in the TEvaluator JCL class for Delphi 7?

Answer 1

There are none of the standard functions from Math.pas included. All that is implemented in the default evaluation parser are the operators or, xor, and, not, mod, +, -, /, *, <, >, <=, >=, =, div, cmp, bor, bxor, band, bnot, shl, and shr. (As many as I found in a quick check of the source, and a few I missed based on @David’s comment.)

You can add functions (including those that are part of the Delphi RTL) to the evaluator fairly easily. It’s even shown in the demo, which adds the functions from one of the JCL units.

The JCL evaluator example (ExprEvalExample.dpr) found by default in the JCL\examples\common\expreval folder passes a TComboBox.Items to the Init function in ExprEvalExampleLogic.pas as the FuncList parameter, which is populated by this code (the TEasyEvaluator is given the functions in the same routine) with the functions from JclMath.pas:

  with FuncList do
  begin
    Add('LogBase10');
    Add('LogBase2');
    Add('LogBaseN');
    Add('ArcCos');
    Add('ArcCot');
    Add('ArcCsc');
    Add('ArcSec');
    Add('ArcSin');
    Add('ArcTan');
    Add('ArcTan2');
    Add('Cos');
    Add('Cot');
    Add('Coversine');
    Add('Csc');
    Add('Exsecans');
    Add('Haversine');
    Add('Sec');
    Add('Sin');
    Add('Tan');
    Add('Versine');
    Add('ArcCosH');
    Add('ArcCotH');
    Add('ArcCscH');
    Add('ArcSecH');
    Add('ArcSinH');
    Add('ArcTanH');
    Add('CosH');
    Add('CotH');
    Add('CscH');
    Add('SecH');
    Add('SinH');
    Add('TanH');
  end;

Those would be the functions supported in the demo app. You can add your own in a similar fashion.