Parse numerical value from glossaries variable

Question

Can I parse the text returned from \gls*{...} and get latex to recognize it as a numerical variable so that I can use it in a calculation? This calculation could be done using calculator, fp, calc or pgf depending what I run into concerning package conflicts. I am compiling in XeLaTeX and TeX4HT.

The primary reason why I turned to the glossaries package to manage was because of the presence of symbols such as . _ + - etc in the names of the variables. The presence of these precludes the possibility that they will be suitable names for newcommands. I will likely post another question later trying to figure out if it's possible to import a table from a csv file and iterate through it until the matching string argument is found, and then return the value on the same line in a specific column, within a newcommand, but I am hoping it's easier to parse a number from a string returned by a gls call.

In the MWE below the different approaches I have tried are commented out to permit compilation to show the success of the glossaries definition and calculation functions.

\documentclass{article}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \setlength\parindent{0pt}
    \usepackage[nogroupskip,toc,acronym]{glossaries} 
    \usepackage{scrwfile}
    \usepackage{calculator}
    \usepackage{fp}
    \usepackage{calc}
    \usepackage{pgf}

    \usepackage{siunitx}

    \newglossary[datag]{data}{datat}{datan}{Data}

    \newglossaryentry{d.A_Control-0}{ type={data},  name={1.1}, first={1.1}, description={1.1} }

    \newglossaryentry{d.B_Sample-2}{ type={data},  name={1.08059784043081}, first={1.08059784043081}, description={1.08059784043081} }


    \newcommand{\foldfp}[3]{
        \FPeval{result}{round(#1/#2,#3)}
        \result
    }

    \newcommand{\foldcalculator}[3]{
        \DIVIDE{#1}{#2}{\dsol}  
        \dsol   
        %\DIVIDE{\gls*{#1}}{\gls*{#2}}{\dsol}   
        %\DIVIDE{{#1}}{{#2}}{\dsol} 
        %\ROUND[#3]{\dsol}{\rsol}
        %\rsol
    }

    \begin{document}


        \begin{itemize}
            \item \gls*{d.A_Control-0}
            \item \gls*{d.B_Sample-2}
            \item \glsentryfirst{d.A_Control-0}
            \item \foldfp{33}{2}{2} - proof that the calculation function works fine.
            \item \foldcalculator{33}{2}{2} - proof that the calculation function works fine.
            %\item \num{\gls*{d.A_Control-0}}
            %\item \number{\gls*{d.A_Control-0}}
            %\item \foldfp{\gls*{d.A_Control-0}}{\gls*{d.B_Sample-2}}{2}
            %\item \foldcalculator{\gls*{d.A_Control-0}}{\gls*{d.B_Sample-2}}{2}            
        \end{itemize}

    \end{document} 

Answer 1

Thanks to all who commented, here is my summary of the problem evolution and solution:

1. I was mistaken in interpreting the unexpanded \gls*{} entries as a numerical parse problem. Thanks to @ChristianHupfer
2. I can use \glsentryname{} to grab the expanded definition. Thanks to @NicolaTalbot
3. Now that I am using an expanded variable correctly, there isn't actually a problem recognizing the defined term (a number in excel - rather than use LaTeX to parse and evaluate my content, I use a formula in excel to control the digits/rounding of the raw data stored as gls entry outputs). Thanks to @cfr.
4. Lastly I couldn't continue to use the calculator package because it uses a modified division algorithm that does not return sufficiently accurate results. Instead I used the following code.

fold command:

\newcommand{\folds}[2]{%
    \ifboolexpr{test {\ifdimgreater{\glsentryname{#1} pt}{\glsentryname{#2} pt}}}%
    {%
        \FPeval{result}{round(\glsentryname{#1}/\glsentryname{#2},\rfndp)}%
        \num{\result}%
    }% true
    {%
        \FPeval{result}{round(\glsentryname{#2}/\glsentryname{#1},\rfndp)}%
        \num{\result}%
    }% false
}