Afternoon most munificent ones

I have a, hopefully, simple query.
I am writing a comma separated output file called xyz.csv
One of the columns has a large digit number in which, when opening in Excel, displays as (for example) 1.20201E+13 rather than 12011621300726.
I am not using "Spreadsheet::WriteExcel" but a simple 

open( OUT, '>', "$output_file" ) or croak "Unable to open $output_file
+, $!";
print OUT "$number[2], $number[$i], $number[$i+1]\n";

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Is there a way within that simple print statement that you can replicate the type of code you'd use in 'write excel' that would enable the large digit field ($number$i) to be viewed as if the cell had been formatted as 'number'? 
my $fmt = $workbook->add_format( num_format => '0' );
  $worksheet->write_string( 'A2', $number[$i], $fmt );

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Thanks

In reply to Formatting a csv column as 'number' by viffer

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