Hi,

I am creating an application when the user should be able to input a custom function. For example, consider the function type: (float -> float). The user can input: fun x -> x*x or fun x -> Math.Exp(x).

Is there any easy way to "parse" such a function? In other words, given the string input, can I convert it to the function type (let us assume for the moment that I know that x is of type float.) For the standard numeric types, one can input a string and convert it to an integer. Is there any similar way to parse or deserialize such a function? Also, given a function say, fun x -> x*x, is there an easy way to write it to a string, and then build it back by reading it from a string?

I am trying to avoid writing my own custom parser.

Thanks for any help in this matter.

Regards

Chris