像RHINO或NASHORN这样的外部库可以用来运行javascript。javascript可以计算简单的公式，而不需要对字符串进行分割。如果代码写得好，也不会对性能造成影响。 下面是一个使用RHINO -的示例

public class RhinoApp {
    private String simpleAdd = "(12+13+2-2)*2+(12+13+2-2)*2";

public void runJavaScript() {
    Context jsCx = Context.enter();
    Context.getCurrentContext().setOptimizationLevel(-1);
    ScriptableObject scope = jsCx.initStandardObjects();
    Object result = jsCx.evaluateString(scope, simpleAdd , "formula", 0, null);
    Context.exit();
    System.out.println(result);
}

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));
    } 
}

下面是GitHub上另一个名为EvalEx的开源库。

与JavaScript引擎不同，这个库只专注于计算数学表达式。此外，该库是可扩展的，支持使用布尔运算符和圆括号。

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

public class test2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ScriptException {
        String s = "10+2";
        ScriptEngineManager mn = new ScriptEngineManager();
        ScriptEngine en = mn.getEngineByName("js");
        Object result = en.eval(s);
        System.out.println(result);
    }
}

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();
}

如果我们要实现它，那么我们可以使用下面的算法

While there are still tokens to be read in, 1.1 Get the next token. 1.2 If the token is: 1.2.1 A number: push it onto the value stack. 1.2.2 A variable: get its value, and push onto the value stack. 1.2.3 A left parenthesis: push it onto the operator stack. 1.2.4 A right parenthesis: 1 While the thing on top of the operator stack is not a left parenthesis, 1 Pop the operator from the operator stack. 2 Pop the value stack twice, getting two operands. 3 Apply the operator to the operands, in the correct order. 4 Push the result onto the value stack. 2 Pop the left parenthesis from the operator stack, and discard it. 1.2.5 An operator (call it thisOp): 1 While the operator stack is not empty, and the top thing on the operator stack has the same or greater precedence as thisOp, 1 Pop the operator from the operator stack. 2 Pop the value stack twice, getting two operands. 3 Apply the operator to the operands, in the correct order. 4 Push the result onto the value stack. 2 Push thisOp onto the operator stack. While the operator stack is not empty, 1 Pop the operator from the operator stack. 2 Pop the value stack twice, getting two operands. 3 Apply the operator to the operands, in the correct order. 4 Push the result onto the value stack. At this point the operator stack should be empty, and the value stack should have only one value in it, which is the final result.