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On Wed, 6 May 2015 16:34:33 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Kashif Rana <kashifrana84@gmail.com> wrote:
>> thanks for the feedback. I think its problem with excel itself, showing wrong value. Because when I opened the csv file in text editor, I can see correct value but opening in excel showing wrong value. What I can do to see correct in excel as well.
>>
>
>Simple fix: Ditch Excel.
>
>Slightly more complicated fix: Open the file, then select everything,
>and tell Excel that it's plain text. You can't say that in the CSV
>file.
>
	Or (manually): /don't/ "open" the CSV file... Open a blank Excel
document, and IMPORT the CSV -- as part of the import process you can then
define what type of data each column should be treated as.
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