CPYTOIMPF and the apostrophe

                                                                            
 Hello all......                                                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
 I have what I hope is a simple question.  I am using CPYTOIMPF to          
 create a CSV file for an application I am working on.  One of the          
 fields I have in the ISeries file that I am copying is a numeric field     
 that I convert to alpha with the %EDITC BIF.  This field translates to     
 the CSV file just fine.  However, we have a need for an apostrophe to      
 be right before the number in the cell in the CSV file that this field     
 occupies.  In Excel, this identifies the field as a label.   I can do      
 the CPYTOIMPF without attaching an apostrophe on that field, and then      
 within the CSV sheet maunally stick an apostrophe in the cell and the      
 cell becomes identified as a label (with the small green triangle in       
 the upper left corner).  This is what is needed for the application.       
 So I thought to myself, "add the apostrophe on before you send the file    
 down".  But if I try to put the apostrophe in there on the ISeries side    
 and then do the CPYTOIMPF, it comes across to the CSV file looking like    
 this:     '3.                                                              
                                                                            
                                                                            
 Is there a parameter or some sort of workaround that would allow this      
 field to show up in the CSV file with this cell defined as a label?  Or    
 am I barking up the wrong tree in using the CPYTOIMPF command?  Any and    
 all help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!                            
                                                                            
                                                                            
 Bill Howie                                                                 
 Programmer/Analyst                                                         
 Coastal Pet Products, Inc.                                                 
                                                                            







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