Help with Delimiters/While loops

[Norm]

switch between delimiters

Don't think about delimiters. Think about tokens. You want a class/method that understands tokens.
If it is given: 8-3+4
it will return these 5 tokens: 8 & - & 3 & + & 4

Now look at the pseudo code in post#19.

[bubblegum]

update total using operator and number

In the loop...could I write a case statement that uses the + and - as characters??
Ex:

switch(x)
{

case "-":
total = total + number;
break;      
case "+":
total = total - number;
break;

}

[Norm]

You can now use Strings in switch statements with Java 1.7

[bubblegum]

Thank you Norm! You helped me solve this problem! :D!

[Norm]

How did you solve the problem of changing operators in a long expression?