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The equal preceeding the quoted value will force it to be stored in excel as a character string. This works for all those troublesome values, like the US zip code or phone number, that often have leading zeros stripped by excel...
hth,
Eric
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Subject: write .csv from rpgle column format issue
Is there anything I can do in the writing of a .csv (not .xls) file so that when Excel opens the file, text columns like a part number will not be interpreted as a date (example part number = 737039).
I know I can (with more effort) write a .xls, but this file is being processed as an import to a windows app, and user is reviewing with Excel. They don't want to have to re-format many columns.
btw-Double and single quotes already exist within the data (" = inches and ' = feet...)
Jim Franz
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