# LOAD CSV creating strings with leading/trailing double quotes

**URL:** <https://community.neo4j.com/t/load-csv-creating-strings-with-leading-trailing-double-quotes/61812>\
**Category:** Cypher\
**Created:** [April 2, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/load-csv-creating-strings-with-leading-trailing-double-quotes/61812 "2023-04-02T22:05:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![HealthDataGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8dc957/32.png) [@HealthDataGuy](https://community.neo4j.com/u/HealthDataGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/load-csv-creating-strings-with-leading-trailing-double-quotes/61812/1 "2023-04-02T22:05:37Z")

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I'm using LOAD CSV to load and merge nodes but all the string properties have leading and trailing double quotes added during loading. The source looks like:

Code,DisplayName,Grouping,Classification,Specialization,EffectiveDate,LastModifiedDate,Section  
193200000X,Multi-Specialty Group,Group,Multi-Specialty,,10/1/2003,,Individual  
193400000X,Single Specialty Group,Group,Single Specialty,,10/1/2003,,Individual

But all of the node properties become "193200000X".

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![glilienfield](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/glilienfield/32/27534_2.png) [@glilienfield](https://community.neo4j.com/u/glilienfield)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/load-csv-creating-strings-with-leading-trailing-double-quotes/61812/2 "2023-04-03T00:29:27Z")

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Doesn't that make sense, since the property must be a string since it ends with 'X', a character?

 ![Screen Shot 2023-04-02 at 8.28.43 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/uploads/neo4jcommunity/original/3X/2/d/2d9c768dcbf867cc528ff731e290552961a97c91.png)

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**Author:** ![HealthDataGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8dc957/32.png) [@HealthDataGuy](https://community.neo4j.com/u/HealthDataGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/load-csv-creating-strings-with-leading-trailing-double-quotes/61812/3 "2023-04-03T17:21:41Z")

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Thanks for response, and yes the property is a string. After looking at it further, it looks like Neo made a change to how the browser displays string data in Graph rendering when they moved to the new version of Aura. Sigh, why most developers loathe version changes.

I've been moving an existing graph into a new instance on Aura and it looks like there was a change in how the browser renders strings in the display of nodes. Below is snip of old|new with both Graph and Table view of data.

The left side is new version of Aura and right side is old. In the old version, Graph rendering did not include double quotes.

With the new version of the browser, Graph rendering of results includes double quotes for all strings.

Hopefully there is some setting to change this back to rendering wout the double quotes? It's mostly just annoying.

 ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/uploads/neo4jcommunity/original/3X/2/9/293dd4d5a18edcd94c9f15b849da0e0c574e4bcd.jpeg)