RE: AS400 to EXCEL

I read this somewhere, not sure if it will work for you (or for anybody for
that matter)...  But if your writing this csv with rpg, try placing an
invisible ascii character after your number, for example

The ascii code 160, is a space looking character, but it's not a space, so
excel will not try to re-format it.

eval outstring = '01234'+char(160)   /* i'm not sure what hex ebcidec value
you would have to use...

It should trick excel into thinking its a text string, and not remove the
leading zero...

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Handy [SMTP:dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 11:39 AM
> To:   RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject:      Re: AS400 to EXCEL
> 
> Booth,
> 
> >Would Excel then decide that all the columns are character, and
> >move numbers in as text? 
> 
> No.  It looks at it a cell at a time, not per column, unless you are using
> the
> import wizard to set column types.  For example, this input:
> 
> "Field1","Field2"
> "ABC","DEF"
> "XYZ","123"
> 
> results in cell B3 having the numeric value 123.  Turn around and resave
> the
> file, and the third row is written as:
> 
> "XYZ",123
> 
> Doug
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