Trying to find away to display the value of a calculation

[itm]

Hi,


I am trying to find away to allow the user to put a calculation in a textbox,like you can in an Excel cell, and have it return the value in another textbox.For example, the user types in the one box "2*20/4" and put the value(10) in another box.
So far I have not been able to do this; any ideas would be really appreciated.
Thank you
itm

here is my code and I have tried many things, but here is my latest try:

txtDollarImpact.Text = CStr(Val(txtCalcs.Text))

[John_G]

Hi -

You want to use the eval function - for example eval("2*20/4") yields 10.

Try this for yours: txtDollarImpact.Text = Eval(txtCalcs.Text)

HTH

John

[itm]

Thanks that worked.

[Bob Fitz]

Keep operator precedence in mind.
1+8*2 = 17
(1+8)*2=18