RE: CSV - how to keep leading zeros and alignment problems

["Bob Cozzi" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I though you said your numbers were being generated like this:

=("025"),"70010060622","70300457","5507","CO ABC"
=("025"),"70010060620","70300412","MELANIE","CO DEF"


As a result of =("025") I get 025 in cell A in Excel.

-Bob Cozzi
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Glenn Gundermann
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:22 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: CSV - how to keep leading zeros and alignment problems

Seeing that I'm creating a csv file, every field is already surrounded by
double quotes.
Here's a sample of the first five columns:
"025","70010060622","70300457","5507","CO ABC"
"025","70010060620","70300412","MELANIE","CO DEF"

When opening the csv file in Excel, I get:

STATUS  PICK TICKET  ACCOUNT   PO         SHIP TO
25      70010060622  70300457       5507  CO ABC
25      70010060620  70300412  MELANIE    CO DEF

So you can see I'm missing the leading 0 in the status column, and
the alignment is off for the PO column.

Tks,

Glenn Gundermann
ggundermann@xxxxxx
(647) 272-3295

Booth Martin wrote:
> Surround the field with double quotes.
>
>  C        eval    wString = %trim(wString) + ',"' +  %editc(Number:
> 'X')  + '"'
>
>
> Glenn Gundermann wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I haven't ventured into the POI world yet so I'm using RPG to create a
> > .csv file in the IFS using the unix APIs like open(), write(), etc.
> >
> > I can't figure out how to keep leading zeros for a numeric field.
> >
> > An old article of Bob Cozzi in MC Press said to use the quote function,
> > e.g. =("001") but I get =(001")" in my column.  Perhaps the quote
> > function
> > will only work for people using CPYTOIMPF.
> >
> > I've tried putting in an apostrophe in the front.  I get '001 in my cell
> > instead of 001.
> >
> > Secondly, I have a column (P.O. #) that should be character but the data
> > sometimes is numeric.  The character data is left-justified and the
> > numeric data is right-justified.
> >
> > Any help would be most appreciated.
> >
> > Tks,
> >
> > Glenn Gundermann
> > ggundermann@xxxxxx
> > (647) 272-3295