Yet Another Math Parser

YAMP may be really helpful or really useless depending on your needs, dependencies and software stack. YAMP is completely built in C# and provides an easy, yet powerful approach to parse expressions in a syntax, that is comfortable and quite close to industry standards.

The parser is currently very stable. The drawback of the current release is the speed of the parser, which is faster than most other implementations, but slower than some. The good side is that everything is parsed in a standard way, so that you can easily perform (parse and interpret) thousands of queries within a second.

Features of YAMP is (complex) (matrix) numerics (scalars, vectors, matrices) with symbolic terms (constants, variables, functions) that can be customized. Even though the current release does not support adding your own operators (they can be added in the code within a few lines), it is easily possible. This allows operator overloading as well.

Current status

The current version number is 1.6.0. A NuGet package (current version 1.6.0) is available here. There are a lot of tests in the code - since the package aims to be cross platform (created with Mono), the NUnit unit testing framework has been chosen.

The console project (provided in the solution) gives you instant access to benchmarks and provides you with a small REPL. Parse equations as you want to. In the current release exceptions from the parser are caught in the console application.

Change log

1.6.0:

• Possibility to use localization for the help (#19)
• Alias for the not equal operator != (#20)
• Support for member functions @nhenriques (#21)
• Improved operator mapping @nhenriques (#18)
• Implemented extended equality check @nhenriques (#22)

1.5.0:

• Changed static Parser to instance model
• Improved plugin handling
• Pure portable approach (IO via plugin)
• Some fixes
• Switched to NUnit (3) for unit tests

1.4.0:

• Some fixes (e.g., brackets)
• Improved complex power
• More flexible ParseContext

1.3.0:

• Added linear fitting function
• Added distribution estimation function
• Fixed typos in documentation
• Added automated tests for documentation
• Improved FFT (fixed some bugs)
• Improvement in min() and max() functions
• Improved the load() function
• Added possibility for extern functions defined in *.ys files
• Additional boolean operators && and || available
• Better expression and scripting blocks
• Some new functions (cumprod, cumsum, ...) available
• Added chol function for accessing the Cholesky decomposition

More changes can be found in the version history.

Where this parser is useful

• C# only projects
• Lightweight projects with a sophisticated, yet small and fast parser
• Customized mathematics that is regularly updated
• Easily plug-and extensible architecture for (numerical) mathematics

Participating in the project

If you know some feature that YAMP is currently missing, and you are willing to implement the feature, then your contribution is more than welcome! Also if you have a really cool idea - do not be shy, I'd like to hear it.

Some legal stuff

Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016, Florian Rappl and collaborators. All rights reserved.

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