Maybe I didn't stated my question correctly. But by doing that on a Cell formatted as Date you'd probably end up with something like: 38966 even if in your Worksheet you see: 6-Sep-06
I would like to store the latter, the data as seen in Excel on a String. Hope this clears up the confusion. Thanks in advance, Alex Daniel Noll wrote: > > Alex Mayorga Adame wrote: >> In short, there's a need to extract the contents of the cells as they >> show >> on the worksheet, extracted as a string no matter what the Cell number >> format is. >> >> Any help would be highly appreciated. > > We do this the trivial way, i.e. String.valueOf(doubleValue); > > Daniel > > > -- > Daniel Noll > ... > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Reading-numeric-values-as-strings-from-a-cell-tf1126130.html#a6179056 Sent from the POI - User forum at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
