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Re: how to take quotation marks away ?

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• Subject: [mg48531] Re: how to take quotation marks away ?
• From: "Bill Bertram" <wkb at aansto.gov.au>
• Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 04:50:02 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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"Florian Jaccard" <florian.jaccard at eiaj.ch> wrote in message
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> Dear Mathematica-specialists,
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> I have a  (long)  list of the form   {{"42.1,3.3"},{"3.1,4.2"}}
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> How can I transform it to obtain  {{42.1,3.3},{3.1,4.2}} ?
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> I tried ToExpression, but it failed.
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This seems to work,

ToExpression[ToString[{{"42.1,3.3"}, {"3.1,4.2"}}]]
Cheers,

  Bill