Re: Exprting data into Excel drops leading zero -- PCTECH

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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Exprting data into Excel drops leading zero
From: Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:57:38 -0500
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Adam,

>How is Excel supposed to know? Guess?  

No, but by the presence of the double quotes around a value, even if it only
contains digits.  But Excel's automatic (ie non-wizard based text import)
handling of CSV's treats any value as a number which can be interpretted as
numeric regardless of the presence of quotes.

Doug

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