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csv and leading zeroes

I'm trying to write the contents of a csv file to a table, but I am
having problems with fields with leading zeroes. Whenever I save as csv
I lose the leading zeroes. Does anybody know how to prevent this?
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Oct 4 '06 #1
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are values being saved as numbers or strings ?
wrapped in quotes ?


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I'm trying to write the contents of a csv file to a table, but I am
having problems with fields with leading zeroes. Whenever I save as csv
I lose the leading zeroes. Does anybody know how to prevent this?
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