Right... But the principal is still the same. Excel handles those types
of fields in a uniform way, regardless of whether you do the entry
yourself or if you just import a csv file.

        -- jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Marek Kilimajer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 5:15 PM
To: jon roig
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP, Excel, and tab delimited files question


jon roig wrote:
> Nah... Try it in excel itself and you'll see what I'm talking about. 
> You have to do it in numeric fields.
> 
> Do this in an excel field:
> - Type 000010 and hit return.
> ... It becomes 10, right?
> 
> Now try it like this: '000100
> ... Tada! It stays as 00100 and puts a little green tab in the top 
> left corner.
> 
> There's no closing ' in this example, just the opening one at the 
> beginning of the text.
> 
> Hope that helps... 'course, I'm using excel 2002, so maybe different 
> versions do different things...
> 
>       -- jon
> 

This is different. You are talking about inputing data in excell 
application, but Jay is building csv file.

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