# Kibana export into CSV string got converted to number unexpectedly

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-export-into-csv-string-got-converted-to-number-unexpectedly/244947>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [August 13, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-export-into-csv-string-got-converted-to-number-unexpectedly/244947 "2020-08-13T21:13:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![ella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ella](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ella)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-export-into-csv-string-got-converted-to-number-unexpectedly/244947/1 "2020-08-13T21:13:16Z")

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Hi I try to export data into CSV in kibana There is a field with value as '000011' and it's always shown as '11' even the the data type is string in index pattern.

How can i solve this?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-export-into-csv-string-got-converted-to-number-unexpectedly/244947/2 "2020-09-10T21:13:20Z")

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