Re: [basex-talk] Enclosing strings by double quotes for CSV data output

Double quotes are only required for parsing,

I would like to know a bit more about corresponding requirements.

they are not used to judge if the input is a string or number.

I got other impressions (or expectations).

A little example: 1;"1"

If you save this one-liner as CSV file and open it with Excel, but values will be interpreted and formatted as numbers.

I suggest to take another look at available information sources.

* Text Import Wizard by Microsoft Excel https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/text-import-wizard-c5b02af6-fda1-... Step 2 of 3 (Delimited data) … Text qualifier …

* Text Import by LibreOffice https://help.libreoffice.org/7.3/en-GB/text/shared/00/00000208.html#hd_id314...

Regards, Markus