Further to Nick's response, can you please let us have more information. What
do you want to do with the values once you have them? If all you want to do
is print them onto the screen or onto a report then the easiest technique is
simply to use the DataFormatter class, or one of it's subclasses, to convert
the cell's contents into a String. DataFormatter actually uses the
formatting object applied to the cell by the sheets original creator to
ensure that the resulting String looks just as the cell did. However, if you
need to recover numeric or date/time values for performing calculations then
you need to test the cells type and call the correct method to recover it's
contents.

Yours

Mark B


Bugzilla from [email protected] wrote:
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> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48140
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> Nick Burch <[email protected]> changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
>          Resolution|                            |INVALID
> 
> --- Comment #4 from Nick Burch <[email protected]> 2009-11-24 08:38:05 UTC
> ---
> Please do not ask basic usage questions by re-opening old bugs relating to
> something else!
> 
> Check the list archives, yours is a common misconception about excel, and
> all
> the answers you seek have come up on the list many times.
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