QUOTES

Used when exporting free-format ASCII files to specify whether or not character strings are to be surrounded by double quotes. The syntax is:

QUOTES = {Y | N};

If QUOTES is set to N (default), then quotes will not be placed around character strings. If QUOTES is set to Y, then character strings will be surrounded by quotes.

Surrounding character strings with double quotes is a common practice in the creation of comma-delimited ASCII files.

For example:

QUOTES = Y;

will cause the data in the exported file to be enclosed in quotes.