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Eval-calculator

importance: 4

Create a calculator that prompts for an arithmetic expression and returns its result.

There’s no need to check the expression for correctness in this task. Just evaluate and return the result.

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Let’s use eval to calculate the maths expression:

let expr = prompt("Type an arithmetic expression?", '2*3+2');

alert( eval(expr) );

The user can input any text or code though.

To make things safe, and limit it to arithmetics only, we can check the expr using a regular expression, so that it only may contain digits and operators.