Function Tree

Welcome to function_tree, a simple library for parsing strings into callable function-trees.

Parsing strings as mathematical expressions

At the simplest (and least efficient) level, we can interpret strings as mathematical expressions:

final expressions = [
  "2 + 2",
  "(3 + 2)^3",
  "3 * pi / 4",
  "3 * sin(5 * pi / 6)",
  "e^(-1)"
];
for (final expression in expressions) {
  print("'$expression' -> ${expression.interpret()}");
}

'2 + 2' -> 4.0
'(3 + 2)^3' -> 125.0
'3 * pi / 4' -> 2.356194490192345
'3 * sin(5 * pi / 6)' -> 1.5000000000000009
'e^(-1)' -> 0.36787944117144233

Function Trees

The library supports two types of callable, function-trees, namely SingleVariableFunction and MultiVariableFunction.

Single variable functions

We can create a single variable function from a string either by constructing a SingleVariableFunction instance or by calling the toSingleVariableFunction string extension directly on a string, as in the following example.

final f = "20 * (sin(x) + 1)".toSingleVariableFunction(),
    pi = "pi".interpret();
for (var x = 0.0; x < 2 * pi; x += pi / 20) {
  print("|" + " " * f(x).round() + "*");
}

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Multi-variable functions

Similarly, we can construct a MultiVariableFunction instance or call the toMultiVariableFunction string extension to create a multi-variable function tree, as in the following example.

final times = "a * b".toMultiVariableFunction(["a", "b"]),
    values = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
for (final a in values) {
  final sb = StringBuffer();
  for (final b in values) {
    sb
      ..write(times({"a": a, "b": b}).floor())
      ..write("\t");
  }
  print(sb);
}

1   2   3   4   5   
2   4   6   8   10  
3   6   9   12  15  
4   8   12  16  20  
5   10  15  20  25  

TeX expressions

Function tree instances have a tex property for TeX expressions:

final f = "x * cos(y) + y * sin(x)".toMultiVariableFunction(["x", "y"]);
print(f.tex);

x cdot \cos\left( y \right) + y cdot \sin\left( x \right)

Derivatives

Derivative trees can be constructed through the SingleVariableFunction.derivative and MultiVariableFunction.partial methods.

final f = "(2 * x) ^ (1 / (x ^ 2))".toSingleVariableFunction(), 
    fDash = f.derivative("x");
print("x      y      y'");
for (var x = 0.5; x < 3.0; x += 0.25) {
  print(
    "${x.toStringAsFixed(4)} "
    "${f(x).toStringAsFixed(4)} "
    "${fDash(x).toStringAsFixed(4)}");
}

x      y      y'
0.5000 1.0000 8.0000
0.7500 2.0561 0.9215
1.0000 2.0000 -0.7726
1.2500 1.7976 -0.7663
1.5000 1.6295 -0.5780
1.7500 1.5054 -0.4229
2.0000 1.4142 -0.3134
2.2500 1.3460 -0.2373
2.5000 1.2937 -0.1837
2.7500 1.2529 -0.1452

final f = "sin(u ^ 2 + 2 * v)".toMultiVariableFunction(["u", "v"]), 
  fu = f.partial("u"), 
  fv = f.partial("v"),
  pi = "pi".interpret(),
  u = pi / 3,
  v = pi / 4;
  for (final fun in [f, fu, fv]) {
    print("${fun({"u": u, "v": v})}");
  }

0.4566033934365143
-1.8633212348878314
-1.779340710602958

Interpreter

The interpreter has support for the following:

Functions

One-parameter functions

abs     acos    asin    atan    ceil
cos     cosh    cot     coth    csc
csch    exp     fact    floor   ln      
log     round   sec     sech    sin
sinh    sqrt    tan     tanh

Two-parameter functions

log     nrt     pow

Constants

e       pi      ln2     ln10    log2e
log10e  sqrt1_2 sqrt2

Operations

+  -  *  /  %  ^

Thanks

Thanks for your interest in this library. Please file any bugs or requests here.