#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; #use Data::Dumper; my $operators = { '+' => sub { my $i = shift @_; $i += $_ for @_; return $i }, '-' => sub { my $i = shift @_; $i -= $_ for @_; return $i }, '*' => sub { my $i = shift @_; $i *= $_ for @_; return $i }, '/' => sub { my $i = shift @_; $i /= $_ for @_; return $i }, }; my $task = "( + 3 4 ( * 2 7 ( + 1 1 ) ) ( / 6 2 ) )"; print calculate( split /\s+/, $task ), "\n"; exit; sub solve { my ( $op, @vals ) = @_; die "solve(): wrong operator or to less values" unless ( exists $operators->{$op} && $#vals >= 1 ); return $operators->{$op}(@vals); } sub calculate { my @ops = @_; @ops = @ops[ 1 .. $#ops - 1 ] if $ops[0] eq '(' and $ops[-1] eq ')'; # remove leading and trailing brackets my $marker = -1; my $begin = undef; my $end = undef; my @marked = (); for ( 0 .. $#ops ) { $begin = $_ if $ops[$_] eq '(' && ++$marker == 0; $end = $_ if $ops[$_] eq ')' && $marker-- == 0; if ( defined $begin && defined $end ) { push @marked, { begin => $begin, end => $end }; # find balanced brackets on this level $marker = -1; $begin = undef; $end = undef; } } while (@marked) { my $current = pop @marked; splice @ops, $current->{begin}, # recursively solve inner brackets $current->{end} - $current->{begin} + 1, calculate( @ops[ $current->{begin} .. $current->{end} ] ); } #print Dumper \@ops; return solve(@ops); }