CS 1401 Assignment #4

Due Date: Monday, October 1, or Tuesday, October 2, 2007, before the beginning of your lab section.

Objective: The main objective of this assignment is to practice using conditional statements.

Programming assignment: Use JOptionPane to design a simple function calculator for computing the values of elementary functions. This function calculator should read simple expressions like exp(-1.5), sin(0.0) or ln(1.0), and generate the result of the corresponding arithmetic operation (or an error message if the user wants to compute the logarithm of 0 or of a negative number). Let us restrict ourselves to functions exp, ln, sin, and cos. For simplicity, feel free to assume that the expressions do not have blank spaces (but please inform the user about this restriction in the input prompt).

Hints: You already know all the tricks that you need to build such a function calculator:

• you know how to set up an input message box and how to read from such box -- we had that in Programming Assignment 3;
• you know how to check whether a given sequence-of-symbols string contains a given sequence such as exp -- it is in the book, and we had that in class; specifically, if the string contains the exp, the corresponding operation returns the location of this string, otherwise it returns -1;
• you know how to separate a part of the string after the given substring and before the final parenthesis;
• you know how to translate strings into real numbers -- we learned that when we learned how to read an number from the GUI;
• you know how to apply mathematical functions to real numbers;
• you know how to return the result -- and, if necessary, how to set up an error message box.

Solution:

import javax.swing.JoptionPane;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import Java.lang.Math.*;

public class FunctionCalculator
{
  public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException
  {
    String inputString;
    int length;
    String value;
    int location;
    double number;
    double result;
    Boolean correct = true;

    // reading the expression
    inputString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter an expression \n" +
      "such as exp(-1.5); your expression should not have blank spaces");
    length = inputString.length();

    // case when the expression contains exp
    location = inputString.indexOf("exp");
    if (location >= 0){
      value = inputString.substring(location + 4, length - 1);
      number = Double.parseDouble(value);
      result = Math.exp(value);
    }

    // case of sin
    location = inputString.indexOf("sin");
    if (location >= 0){
      value = inputString.substring(location + 4, length - 1);
      number = Double.parseDouble(value);
      result = Math.sin(value);
    }

    // case of cos
    location = inputString.indexOf("cos");
    if (location >= 0){
      value = inputString.substring(location + 4, length - 1);
      number = Double.parseDouble(value);
      result = Math.cos(value);
    }

    // case of ln
    location = inputString.indexOf("ln");
    if (location >= 0){
      value = inputString.substring(location + 3, length - 1);
      number = Double.parseDouble(value);
      if (number <= 0)
        {correct = false;}
      else
        {result = Math.ln(value);}
    }

    if (correct)
      {JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Result is" + result,
      "FunctionCalculator", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);}
    else
      {JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,
      "Logarithms are only defined for positive values",
      "FunctionCalculator", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);}

    System.exit(0);
  }
}

Deliverables: as instructed by your TA.