可以使用Djikstra的分流码算法将中缀表示法中的任何表达式字符串转换为后缀表示法。然后，算法的结果可以作为后缀算法的输入，并返回表达式的结果。

我在这里写了一篇关于它的文章，用java实现

对于JDK1.6，您可以使用内置的Javascript引擎。

import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
import javax.script.ScriptEngine;
import javax.script.ScriptException;

public class Test {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws ScriptException {
    ScriptEngineManager mgr = new ScriptEngineManager();
    ScriptEngine engine = mgr.getEngineByName("JavaScript");
    String foo = "40+2";
    System.out.println(engine.eval(foo));
    } 
}

这实际上是对@Boann给出的答案的补充。它有一个轻微的错误，导致“-2 ^ 2”给出一个错误的结果-4.0。这里的问题是求幂的点。只需将取幂运算移到parseTerm()的块中，就可以了。看看下面，这是@Boann的回答略有修改。修改意见见评论。

public static double eval(final String str) {
    return new Object() {
        int pos = -1, ch;

        void nextChar() {
            ch = (++pos < str.length()) ? str.charAt(pos) : -1;
        }

        boolean eat(int charToEat) {
            while (ch == ' ') nextChar();
            if (ch == charToEat) {
                nextChar();
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }

        double parse() {
            nextChar();
            double x = parseExpression();
            if (pos < str.length()) throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected: " + (char)ch);
            return x;
        }

        // Grammar:
        // expression = term | expression `+` term | expression `-` term
        // term = factor | term `*` factor | term `/` factor
        // factor = `+` factor | `-` factor | `(` expression `)`
        //        | number | functionName factor | factor `^` factor

        double parseExpression() {
            double x = parseTerm();
            for (;;) {
                if      (eat('+')) x += parseTerm(); // addition
                else if (eat('-')) x -= parseTerm(); // subtraction
                else return x;
            }
        }

        double parseTerm() {
            double x = parseFactor();
            for (;;) {
                if      (eat('*')) x *= parseFactor(); // multiplication
                else if (eat('/')) x /= parseFactor(); // division
                else if (eat('^')) x = Math.pow(x, parseFactor()); //exponentiation -> Moved in to here. So the problem is fixed
                else return x;
            }
        }

        double parseFactor() {
            if (eat('+')) return parseFactor(); // unary plus
            if (eat('-')) return -parseFactor(); // unary minus

            double x;
            int startPos = this.pos;
            if (eat('(')) { // parentheses
                x = parseExpression();
                eat(')');
            } else if ((ch >= '0' && ch <= '9') || ch == '.') { // numbers
                while ((ch >= '0' && ch <= '9') || ch == '.') nextChar();
                x = Double.parseDouble(str.substring(startPos, this.pos));
            } else if (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z') { // functions
                while (ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z') nextChar();
                String func = str.substring(startPos, this.pos);
                x = parseFactor();
                if (func.equals("sqrt")) x = Math.sqrt(x);
                else if (func.equals("sin")) x = Math.sin(Math.toRadians(x));
                else if (func.equals("cos")) x = Math.cos(Math.toRadians(x));
                else if (func.equals("tan")) x = Math.tan(Math.toRadians(x));
                else throw new RuntimeException("Unknown function: " + func);
            } else {
                throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected: " + (char)ch);
            }

            //if (eat('^')) x = Math.pow(x, parseFactor()); // exponentiation -> This is causing a bit of problem

            return x;
        }
    }.parse();
}

我想无论你用什么方法做这个都会涉及到很多条件命题。但是对于单个操作，比如在你的例子中，你可以将它限制为4个if语句

String math = "1+4";

if (math.split("+").length == 2) {
    //do calculation
} else if (math.split("-").length == 2) {
    //do calculation
} ...

当你想要处理像“4+5*6”这样的多个操作时，它会变得更加复杂。

如果你试图构建一个计算器，那么我建议分别传递计算的每个部分(每个数字或运算符)，而不是作为一个单一的字符串。

你也可以试试BeanShell解释器:

Interpreter interpreter = new Interpreter();
interpreter.eval("result = (7+21*6)/(32-27)");
System.out.println(interpreter.get("result"));

本文讨论了各种方法。以下是文中提到的两种关键方法:

Apache的JEXL

允许脚本包含对java对象的引用。

// Create or retrieve a JexlEngine
JexlEngine jexl = new JexlEngine();
// Create an expression object
String jexlExp = "foo.innerFoo.bar()";
Expression e = jexl.createExpression( jexlExp );
 
// Create a context and add data
JexlContext jctx = new MapContext();
jctx.set("foo", new Foo() );
 
// Now evaluate the expression, getting the result
Object o = e.evaluate(jctx);

使用JDK中嵌入的javascript引擎:

private static void jsEvalWithVariable()
{
    List<String> namesList = new ArrayList<String>();
    namesList.add("Jill");
    namesList.add("Bob");
    namesList.add("Laureen");
    namesList.add("Ed");
 
    ScriptEngineManager mgr = new ScriptEngineManager();
    ScriptEngine jsEngine = mgr.getEngineByName("JavaScript");
 
    jsEngine.put("namesListKey", namesList);
    System.out.println("Executing in script environment...");
    try
    {
      jsEngine.eval("var x;" +
                    "var names = namesListKey.toArray();" +
                    "for(x in names) {" +
                    "  println(names[x]);" +
                    "}" +
                    "namesListKey.add(\"Dana\");");
    }
    catch (ScriptException ex)
    {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
}