Hi, guys-- I'm struggling with figuring out how to determine what type a cell SHOULD be. If I use CellType, what I get is the contents of the cell as they currently are. For example, an empty cell which is formatted as "#,##0" will have a type of "blank" but I'd like to be able to get that it's meant to be a number.
This came up because my users were creating Excel spreadsheets with a 10-digit ID number like and defining it as "a number between 1000000000 and 9999999999". The problem being this would end up as a double, and (at export time) come out as something like "1.23456789E9". So I sez to 'em, I sez, "Hey, it's not a number, it's a numeral. Format it as text in your Excel, and I'll know to treat it as a string." That seems sensible to me: If it's a numeral, don't pretend it's a number. It's just a string that happens to look like a number. But then I realized that blanks all come out as, well, blank (or CellType/BLANK rather). Do I have to suss the type from the format manually to get the type they mean? Is there any way for them to specify in Excel that something is a particular type that POI can tell me what they mean? -- *Blake Watson* *PNMAC* Application Development Manager 5898 Condor Drive Moorpark, CA 93021 (805) 330.4911 x7742 blake.wat...@pnmac.com www.PennyMacUSA.com <http://www.pennymacusa.com/>
