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How to Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation

Evaluate the value of an arithmetic expression in Reverse Polish Notation. The Valid operators are +, -, *, /. Each operand may be an integer or another expression.

Note: The division between two integers should truncate toward zero.

The given RPN expression is always valid. That means the expression would always evaluate to a result and there won't be any divide by zero operation.

Example 1:
Input: ["2", "1", "+", "3", "*"]
Output: 9
Explanation: ((2 + 1) * 3) = 9

Example 2:
Input: ["4", "13", "5", "/", "+"]
Output: 6
Explanation: (4 + (13 / 5)) = 6

Example 3:
Input: ["10", "6", "9", "3", "+", "-11", "*", "/", "*", "17", "+", "5", "+"]
Output: 22
Explanation: 
  ((10 * (6 / ((9 + 3) * -11))) + 17) + 5
= ((10 * (6 / (12 * -11))) + 17) + 5
= ((10 * (6 / -132)) + 17) + 5
= ((10 * 0) + 17) + 5
= (0 + 17) + 5
= 17 + 5
= 22

Reverse Polish Notation Java Program

Method 1:
Using Stack.
If a valid operator comes then pop two-element from the stack, evaluate them and push the result back. Return top element at the end.

Java Code: 
class Solution {
    public int evalRPN(String[] tokens) {
        Stack<Integer> st = new Stack<Integer>();
        for(String ch : tokens){
            if(ch.equals("+")){
                int num1 = st.pop();
                int num2 = st.pop();
                st.push(num1+num2);
            }else if(ch.equals("-")){
                int num1 = st.pop();
                int num2 = st.pop();
                st.push(num2-num1);
            }else if(ch.equals("*")){
                int num1 = st.pop();
                int num2 = st.pop();
                st.push(num1*num2);
            }else if(ch.equals("/")){
                int num1 = st.pop();
                int num2 = st.pop();
                st.push(num2/num1);
            }else{
                st.push(Integer.parseInt(ch));
            }
        }
        return st.pop();
    }
}



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