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in thread Generate a truth table from input string

Parsing is quite possibly not required. Assuming that the variables can be assumed to contain a true value why not just leverage perl. 

$str =~ s/\*/&&/g;
$str =~ s/\+/||/g;
# $str =~ s/'/!/g;
$str =~ s/(\w+)'/!$1/g;
$str =~ s/\(([^\)]+)\)'/!($1)/g;
$str =~ s/\w+/1/g;
my $truth = eval $str;

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If the a/b/A/B vars have associated values all that is required is to substitute them in. Perl does the parsing and calculates the truth.

Update

Modified to deal with ' postfix syntax

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Re^3: Generate a truth table from input string
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 13, 2008 at 16:43 UTC 
    $str =~ s/'/!/g;

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    is not sufficient to convert a postfix operator to a prefix operator. "a'" produces the invalid code "1!".
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      $str =~ s/(\w+)'/!$1/g;
$str =~ s/\(([^\)]+)\)'/!($1)/g;

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        It you're going to allow (a+b)' — the OP might be happy with only supporting /\w+'/ — you must allow (a*(b+c))' too.

        Other than that, there are a few other problems. You don't handle xor, you assume the same precedence and associativity as Perl, and you don't generate a truth table. I presume that's intentional and that you're leaving those as an exercise to the reader, so I'm just documenting what's left to do.

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