https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69878

--- Comment #2 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to PJ Fanning from comment #1)
> There is noone actively maintaining the POI formula evaluations. If you
> would like to submit a PR, feel free to do so.
> 
> In practice, not everyone needs formula evaluation. xls(x) files have the
> evaluated values cached in them - so POI read those anyway. When writing,
> you can call setForceFormulaRecalculation(true) on the POI workbook and this
> sets a flag in the xls(x) file that tells Excel to eval the formulas when it
> opens the file.
> 
> POI will likely never have full formula eval support.

Thank you for your reply!

That makes sense, it is a fairly niche use-case where I use POI as a
calculation engine without the intention of ever opening the file in Excel.

In case anyone else has this issue and finds this before this is fixed: The
workaround I found was to, in the workbook, use SUBSTITUTE to replace "\" with
"\\" and "+" with "\+" IF the matching criteria contains "*" or "?".

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