Leading Zero escape when CSV opened with Excel

[CharmsStyler]

e.g. when writingString 0000000013. While Text Editor suggests exact text.. opening with excel drops leading zeros.. The only neat escape seems to be as follows... Does Jackson csv has a feature option to escape leading zero ?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/165042/stop-excel-from-automatically-converting-certain-text-values-to-dates/15107122#15107122
(\t, ASCII 9).

[cowtowncoder]

There is no such setting at this point. Adding a feature (CsvGenerator.Feature most likely?) would seem to make sense.

So: if String starts with '0', quote it? (in addition to other checks)

[cowtowncoder]

Actually, I am not 100% sure what is being asked. Perhaps it is to allow (and drop) leading zeroes for when parsing numbers?

[cowtowncoder]

FWIW looks like leading zeroes are accepted and handled so that can't be it.