I've used POI/HSSF for a number of years, parsing excel sheets using the
event model. Until now we knew the format of the data we were expecting
and processed accordingly.
Now however I want to be able to get numeric data in the format its
displayed to the user - dates, numbers currencies. Looking around HSSF I
don't really see anything for converting the excel data format into an
equivalent java one (e.g. DecimalFormat / SimpleDateFormat). The only
related thing I found was for the built in formats in
SVTableCellRenderer in "contrib" (see http://tinyurl.com/2d2bw9).
So I was thinking of writing a data format parser for custom data
formats - but just wanted to confirm nothing exists for this yet. Also
if it doesn't exist is it a feature that POI would be of interested in
having contributed?
tia
Niall
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