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mmuurr opened this issue Mar 23, 2020 · 1 comment
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force quoting strings in write_csv (and similars) #1083

mmuurr opened this issue Mar 23, 2020 · 1 comment
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mmuurr commented Mar 23, 2020

Is there any plan to add a 'forced-quoting' option for strings in write_csv (and variants)?
The use case is this: some identifiers appear as numbers (e.g. integers), but should be treated in code as strings.
When writing these strings out from one program (using write_csv), then reading those strings into another program (using read_csv), they may get read as numerics, despite careful formatting options for their string representation in the first program (e.g. not relying on the standard numeric-as-a-string formatting).

To be clear, this option would simply force quoting strings (instead of the current check write_csv makes to decide whether or not to quote a particular string).

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schuffr commented Nov 30, 2020

This is a huge gap. Is there a timeline or decision as to whether it will be implemented?

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