Double Quoted CSV File

Hi all,
How do i create the CSV file with double quotes from Excel
like
"1234", "Abcd", "xyz,abc"

After a bit of digging around it turns out that when Excel saves a file as a csv it checks whether the field contains any commas. If it does then it encloses the field in quotes. I'm using the dbms_lob.read procedure to load the file and then I parse it, using the comma as my delimiter. I also have to handle the quotes but that's the easy bit.

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