You might consider prefixing other fields with an apostrophe to avoid them being misinterpreted as numbers or dates. Unfortunately, even if you put an apostrop

You might consider prefixing other fields with an apostrophe to avoid them being misinterpreted as numbers or dates. Unfortunately, even if you put an apostrophe on everything, problems remain: - the apostrophes are non-standard and assure all other CSV-handling tools get the wrong, apostrophe-prefixed values - Excel itself doesn't escape fields on output, so if someone loads your exported file into Excel, saves it and reloads it, the exploits come back Excel is a quite frighteningly terrible tool for handling CSV.