{{tag>Programmers_Reference Methods IDocumentDataSource_Interface getExpressionValueForCalcs Index}}

====getExpressionValueForCalcs (String)====
<code java>public Object getExpressionValueForCalcs (String expression) 
throws Exception</code>

This method is very similar to the [[pr_methods:getexpressionvalue|getExpressionValue]] method. The only difference is that the resulting value is not converted into any presentation format.

===Parameters===
|''expression''|the text of the expression. This is the text that is contained inside a tag (not including tag symbols)|

===Returns=== 
The value of the expression  - possible types of the Java object are presented in the table of the correspondence between attribute and Java types in [[docs:3500:appendix_a|Appendix A]].