How to change strings like "1/4" into floats?

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- tecbug
- - Joined 30 Oct, 2008
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- 20 Oct, 2012
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How can I change strings like "1/4" and "5/10" into floats 0.25 and 0.5?

I've tried to use expression float(), but float("1/4") returns 1, and float("5/10") returns 5.
- ramones
- - Joined 17 Apr, 2012
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float(tokenAt("1/4", 0, "/")) / float(tokenAt("1/4", 1, "/"))

float(tokenAt("5/10", 0, "/")) / float(tokenAt("5/10", 1, "/"))
- aindovin
- - Joined 2 Oct, 2012
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- 21 Oct, 2012
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thats pretty slick. nice
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- tecbug
- - Joined 30 Oct, 2008
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- 22 Oct, 2012
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Thank you. Works perfectly