Export to csv removes leading zero of mobile number
When exporting a mobile number to csv, it is leaving off the first 0. I have tried various methods I found online to overcome this but none of them worked except one, well so I thought. It was to do this:
On a Mac using Numbers this works perfectly. But some windows users have said that they can see "=""0551236373"" instead of just 0551236373 in the csv.
I also tried this but still no 0 is shown.
Any ideas?
fputcsv($file, array('="'.$mobile_no.'"') );On a Mac using Numbers this works perfectly. But some windows users have said that they can see "=""0551236373"" instead of just 0551236373 in the csv.
I also tried this but still no 0 is shown.
$mobile_test = sprintf('%01s', $mobile_no);Any ideas?
How are the users opening/viewing the file?
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They are opening it with Notepad++
I suspect this is a formatting issue. When you export data to CSV, it gets exported as expected. However, most people then open CSV files in a spreadsheet program such as Excel. Excel see a phone number as 'numeric' rather than 'text', and therefore drops the leading digit. It on'y gets dropped from the display - the data is still there - if you select the column and explicitly format it as text/string, you'll get the leading zero back again.
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Thanks Chris, the issue is that this export needs to be uploaded to a third party. So, do you think once uploaded it will have the zero there even though it can't be seen when viewing the file in excel, numbers etc.
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Nice one!