Count up to a value pulled from spreadsheet with decimal numers

Hi!

I created this setup to animate a number counting up to a specific value pulled from a spreadsheet.

I have two text layers: one pulls the data from the spreadsheet, and the other has the counter animation based on the number from the first layer.

Everything is great except that the numbers in the spreadsheet have decimal numbers e.g. 5,15 and the counter rounds the number to 5,00

I imagine this is because After Effects doesn't understand that the text layer is a number with decimals and only reads the number before the comma and that's the value the slider returns.

My question is: Is there a way to tell After Effects that that text layer is a number with two decimal spots?

And if not is there another way I could make this happen, have an animated counter based on spreadsheet data?

Thank's for your help!