# CSV.jl writing quoted strings

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-jl-writing-quoted-strings/123989>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, csv\
**Created:** [December 19, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-jl-writing-quoted-strings/123989 "2024-12-19T11:43:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TimG](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TimG)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-jl-writing-quoted-strings/123989/9 "2024-12-19T13:06:40Z")

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I just re-read the file like this:

```julia
   dcms = DataFrame(CSV.File(joinpath(pwd(), "DCMS Grants Database", "20241219 - DCMS grants.csv"), ntasks=1))

```

I’m using `ntasks=1` because of [this](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/curious-csv-round-trip-problem/118334) issue.

```julia
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.11.2
Commit 5e9a32e7af (2024-12-01 20:02 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 8 × 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, tigerlake)
Threads: 4 default, 0 interactive, 2 GC (on 8 virtual cores)
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = code
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 4

```

```julia
(DCMS Database) pkg> st
Status `C:\Users\TGebbels\...\Documents\DCMS Database\Project.toml`
  [336ed68f] CSV v0.10.15
  [a93c6f00] DataFrames v1.7.0
⌃ [cd3eb016] HTTP v1.10.10
  [0f8b85d8] JSON3 v1.14.1
  [144e516e] PostcodeToolKit v0.1.0 `C:\Users\TGebbels\...\Documents\Julia\Packages\PostcodeToolKit`
  [08abe8d2] PrettyTables v2.4.0
⌃ [2913bbd2] StatsBase v0.34.3
  [69024149] StringEncodings v0.3.7
  [5c2747f8] URIs v1.5.1
  [49080126] ZipArchives v2.4.0
Info Packages marked with ⌃ have new versions available and may be upgradable.

```

I’m using Julia 1.11.2

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