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# 8  
Old 12-12-2007
Still not resolved!!!!
It doesn't work..
I tried keeping all the values in quotes.

i.e.

chennai as "chennai"
008393 as "008393"

and so on.

But, still the excel file that gets generated to the desktop doesn't has those zeros.
# 9  
Old 12-12-2007
Bug
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vijay06
It doesn't work..
I tried keeping all the values in quotes.

i.e.

chennai as "chennai"
008393 as "008393"

and so on.

But, still the excel file that gets generated to the desktop doesn't has those zeros.
Try with this page
Formatting Cells in Excel

Select all your cells ,then go to the Format menu and then click on the Number tab in the Format Cells dialog box. There is also a choice named Special and when you choose that, you can select formats like Social Security Number, Phone Number, etc.

My OS is Japanese here so I cant try out the excel option..My Office is little different from English Office.

Hope it help you out..

-- user_prady
# 10  
Old 12-12-2007
Well, Ygor's solution works for me:

Quote:
$ cat vijay.csv
chennai,="008393",arun,="00123"
chennai,="0083910",vijay,="00178"
When I double click on this file in Windows, all leading zeros are preserved.

Maybe you can post the top fiew lines of your output file.
# 11  
Old 12-12-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vijay06
It doesn't work..
I tried keeping all the values in quotes.

i.e.

chennai as "chennai"
008393 as "008393"

and so on.

But, still the excel file that gets generated to the desktop doesn't has those zeros.
Using double-quotes on their own doesn't work, you need the preceeding equals sign as well.
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