Retain Leading Zero in CSV

Hi,
We are exporting the output in CSV format but CSV is not showing leading zeros.
For example - if the value is 0002 then it appears as 2 in CSV.
Is there any method or trick to retain leading zeros.
Although, this can be done through excel macro(after the file is opened) but for that manual intervention is required.
Is there any way to run excel macro through web page ? I mean if we could automate the procedure of running macro.
so that user just clicks on the button "Export to CSV" on web page and he gets the output in Excel with leading zeros retained.
Regards,
Anil

Hi Jeremy,
Although i am building a string in BLS and writing it into a csv file
but I tried to test your statement by simulating with test data
For one column of "VARCHAR2" datatype, the value is '0002'
when i test the query results with text/xml output, the SQLDataType="12"
and the value is 0002
but when i test the query results with text/csv output, the value is 2.
Regards,
Anil

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