<span style="font-family:Arial,&#39;Liberation Sans&#39;,&#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I am looking for something similar to </span><a href="http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/ToExpression.html" rel="nofollow" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(74,107,130);text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial,&#39;Liberation Sans&#39;,&#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;,sans-serif;line-height:18px;text-align:left">ToExpression</a><span style="font-family:Arial,&#39;Liberation Sans&#39;,&#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> that is available in Mathematica. I just want to convert a string to an expression, and evaluate the expression. As a first pass, my strings will include only numbers and arithmetic operators, and not even parentheses.</span><div>
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