Converting data to char in double quotes.

I need to create a comma separated txt data load file. Each column has to be within double quotes.
"Material","Plant","SOrg" .....
Currently I am doing something like this. ..
Loop at table, for each field, concatenate " field value ".
But I find this solution to be cumbersome as I have to change the data type for each field to character. Is there a better way to accomplish this?
Thank you.

You can create simple Method or Subroutine or a Macro for this purpose.
If you have lot of fields, you can even use RTTS to get the field names and field-symbols instead of writing all the fields.
TYPES:
BEGIN OF lty_data,
    fld1 TYPE char10,
    fld2 TYPE dmbtr,
END   OF lty_data.
DATA: li_data TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF lty_data.
DATA: lwa_data LIKE LINE OF li_data.
DATA: lv_char TYPE char255.
DEFINE _con.
lv_char = &1.
condense lv_char.
concatenate &2 '"' lv_char '"' into &2 .
END-OF-DEFINITION.
lwa_data-fld1 = 'c1'.
lwa_data-fld2 = '12345.23'.
APPEND lwa_data TO li_data.
lwa_data-fld1 = 'c2'.
lwa_data-fld2 = '72345.23'.
APPEND lwa_data TO li_data.
DATA: lv_output TYPE string.
LOOP AT li_data INTO lwa_data.
_con lwa_data-fld1 lv_output.
CONCATENATE lv_output ',' INTO lv_output.
_con lwa_data-fld1 lv_output.
WRITE: / lv_output.
CLEAR: lv_output.
ENDLOOP.
Regards,
Naimesh Patel

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> I am seeing difficulties with the CHAR(a,t) function. I have an SQL statement where I would like to convert the current date to a string and pick only the year information.
>
> If I understand the documentation correctly, this should work: CHAR(NOW(),'YYYY')
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