# Evaluate expression in scripting

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**Created:** [June 19, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/evaluate-expression-in-scripting/18533 "2018-06-19T20:22:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrogers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mrogers/32/4110_2.png) [@mrogers](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mrogers)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/evaluate-expression-in-scripting/18533/3 "2018-06-19T22:18:42Z")

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Aw well thats not a good sign 😕 I found [this](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-parsing/9170/7?u=mrogers) too but I’m not sure if you can do the same thing he does in Jython instead of Java. Or if that kind of thing would even work for my purposes.

It just seems so odd that something so seemingly simple, that happens so often, is such a tough thing to use. But of course, there are many more considerations than I can understand as an outsider 🙂

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