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calculator's Introduction

This is a command line calculator bulit in Swift.

To run this project, download and run in Xcode.

Specification

You are to prepare a macOS command-line tool that will act as a simple calculator. The calculator will be run from the command line and will only work with integer numbers and the following arithmetic operators: + - x / %. The % operator is the modulus operator, not percentage.

For example, if the program is compiled to calc, the following demonstrates how it will work

./calc 3 + 5 - 7
1

In the command line, the arguments are a repeated sequence in the form

number operator

and ending in a

number

Hitting the enter key will cause the program to evaluate the arguments and print the result. In this case 1.

The program must follow the usual rules of arithmetic which say:

  1. The x / and % operators must all be evaluated before the + and operators.
  2. Operators must be evaluated from left to right.

For example, using Rule 1

2 + 4 x 3 – 6

becomes

2 + 12 – 6

which results in

8

If we did not use Rule 1 then 2 + 4 x 3 – 6 would become 6 x 3 – 6 and then 18 – 6 and finally 12. This is an incorrect result.

If we do not use Rule 2 then the following illustrates how it can go wrong

4 x 5 % 2

Going from left to right we evaluate the x first, which reduces the expression to 20 % 2 which becomes 0. If we evaluated the % first then the expression would reduce to 4 x 1 which becomes 4. This is an incorrect result.

Remember, we are using integer mathematics when doing our calculations, so we get integer results when doing division. For example

./calc 20 / 3
6

Also note that we can use the unary + and operators. For example

./calc -5 / +2
-2

./calc +2 - -2
4

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