Preserve leading zeros in CSV file.

Hello...
I am creating a file on the fly and attaching with email.
emp_no starts with 0001,0002,0003 ...etc.
When file write emp_no to csv file...i looses leading
zeros...what is best solution to preserve zeros?.
In excel file creation, i am using
style="mso-number-format:0000;" to preserve leading zeros.
But by using cffile, i am not able to use style.....Is there
any other way to preserve leading zeros?
<cffile action="write" file="#dirname#/emp_mon.csv"
output="List of Employees" addnewline="Yes">
<cfoutput query="emp_q">
<cffile action="append" file="#dirname#/#filename#"
output="#emp_no#,#e_name#,#e_address#,#sal#" addnewline="Yes">
</cfoutput>

I'd suspect your CSV is fine, ie. if you open it in WordPad
or NotePad you will see 0002. The problem is with whatever you're
importing it into. Excel? If something else I don't know. If Excel,
your Import spec, saved or on-the-fly needs to say Text on that
field rather than the default General which simply means make a
number (zero-suppressed) whenever possible. Single or Double quotes
(on each field that needs it) are a workaround provided you specify
them as "Text Qualifier", but you don't seem to want to do that, so
Text is the only other method.

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