diff --git a/OMPython/OMTypedParser.py b/OMPython/OMTypedParser.py
index 56eb2e7..b4f0d24 100644
--- a/OMPython/OMTypedParser.py
+++ b/OMPython/OMTypedParser.py
@@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ def convertTuple(t):
 def evaluateExpression(s, loc, toks):
     # Convert the tokens (ParseResults) into a string expression
     flat_list = [item for sublist in toks[0] for item in sublist]
-    expr = " ".join(flat_list)
+    expr = "".join(flat_list)
     try:
         # Evaluate the expression safely
         return eval(expr)
-    except NameError:
+    except Exception:
         return expr
 
 # Number parsing (supports arithmetic expressions in dimensions) (e.g., {1 + 1, 1})
diff --git a/tests/test_ArrayDimension.py b/tests/test_ArrayDimension.py
index 8ecb268..0987727 100644
--- a/tests/test_ArrayDimension.py
+++ b/tests/test_ArrayDimension.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def test_ArrayDimension(self):
         omc.sendExpression("getErrorString()")
 
         result = omc.sendExpression("getComponents(A)")
-        assert result[-1][-1] == ('y + 1', 10), f"array dimension does not match the expected value. Got: {result[-1][-1]}, Expected: {('y + 1', 10)}"
+        assert result[-1][-1] == ('y+1', 10), f"array dimension does not match the expected value. Got: {result[-1][-1]}, Expected: {('y+1', 10)}"
 
         omc.__del__()
         shutil.rmtree(tempdir, ignore_errors= True)