Leading zeros are truncated during EXPORT

I am having a report consist of some numberic columns like Emplid (0011, 0223, 00045). When I do the export, these zero's are getting dropped in the csv file.
so in csv file I am having 11, 223, 45 values
How to avoid this??

Hi,
I tried with following query...just added =
select empno ,'="'||empno||'"' empno_excel from emp;
it's working perfectly. Can someone explain me how putting = is removing the leading zero's.
Also I want to show only Excel coulmn in my CSV file. How can I do that.
Is there any API to hide columns in Excel file??
thanks,
deepak

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