I am Using poi version : 3.14
I access an Excel (.xlsx) file
this.workbook = WorkbookFactory.create(new FileInputStream(f.getPath()));
this.workbook.setMissingCellPolicy(Row.CREATE_NULL_AS_BLANK);
this.sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);
Here is a custom format found in .xlsx file applied to a cell. I want to display the cell value in my code.
As you can see the cell value visible in file is "031642153283700100". Also when i clic on this particular cell, value is changing to "42153283700100" (data without custom format applied on).
EDIT
Original cell type is CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC.
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How can i display the formatted value "031642153283700100" in java code ?
I tried :
- cell.toString() => "42153283700100"
- cell.getNumericCellValue() => "42153283700100"
With previous cell type conversion :
cell.setCellType(Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING);
For number formats you should use CellGeneralFormatter
or CellNumberFormatter
.
Example:
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.InvalidFormatException;
import org.apache.poi.ss.format.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
class ReadExcelWithFormats {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
InputStream inp = new FileInputStream("workbook.xlsx");
Workbook wb = WorkbookFactory.create(inp);
Sheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);
for (Row row : sheet) {
for (Cell cell : row) {
String formatstring = cell.getCellStyle().getDataFormatString();
System.out.println(formatstring);
switch (cell.getCellType()) {
//...
case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
double cellvalue = cell.getNumericCellValue();
System.out.println(cellvalue);
String formattedvalue = "";
if ("general".equals(formatstring.toLowerCase())) {
formattedvalue = new CellGeneralFormatter().format(cellvalue);
} else {
formattedvalue = new CellNumberFormatter(formatstring).format(cellvalue);
}
System.out.println(formattedvalue);
break;
//...
default:
System.out.println();
}
}
}
} catch (InvalidFormatException ifex) {
} catch (FileNotFoundException fnfex) {
} catch (IOException ioex) {
}
}
}
Edit
OK, let's have a more general example. The above will not work with dates (what I had known already) but also not with all number formats. The latter I thought the CellNumberFormatter
should do but it does not. Unfortunately it will even produce errors with some proper number formats.
In Excel
a number format can contain up to 4 parts delimited with semicolon. The first part is for numbers greater than 0, the second part is for numbers lower than 0, the third part is for numbers equal 0 and the fourth part is for text.
format > 0
;format < 0
;format = 0
;text
Since the CellNumberFormatter
does not handle this properly, we should do it before using the CellNumberFormatter
.
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.*;
import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.InvalidFormatException;
import org.apache.poi.ss.format.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.util.Date;
class ReadExcelWithFormats {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
InputStream inp = new FileInputStream("workbook.xlsx");
Workbook wb = WorkbookFactory.create(inp);
Sheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);
for (Row row : sheet) {
for (Cell cell : row) {
String formatstring = cell.getCellStyle().getDataFormatString();
System.out.println(formatstring);
switch (cell.getCellType()) {
//...
case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
String formattedvalue = "";
String[] formatstringparts = formatstring.split(";");
if (DateUtil.isCellDateFormatted(cell)) {
Date date = cell.getDateCellValue();
System.out.println(date);
String dateformatstring = "";
if (cell.getCellStyle().getDataFormat() == 14) { //default short date without explicit formatting
dateformatstring = "yyyy-MM-dd"; //default date format for this
} else if (cell.getCellStyle().getDataFormat() == 22) { //default short datetime without explicit formatting
dateformatstring = "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm"; //default datetime format for this
} else { //other data formats with explicit formatting
dateformatstring = formatstringparts[0];
}
formattedvalue = new CellDateFormatter(dateformatstring).format(date);
} else {
double cellvalue = cell.getNumericCellValue();
System.out.println(cellvalue);
switch (formatstringparts.length) {
case 4:
case 3:
if (cellvalue > 0) {
if ("general".equals(formatstringparts[0].toLowerCase())) {
formattedvalue = new CellGeneralFormatter().format(cellvalue);
} else {
formattedvalue = new CellNumberFormatter(formatstringparts[0]).format(cellvalue);
}
}
if (cellvalue < 0) {
if ("general".equals(formatstringparts[1].toLowerCase())) {
formattedvalue = new CellGeneralFormatter().format(cellvalue);
} else {
formattedvalue = new CellNumberFormatter(formatstringparts[1]).format(cellvalue);
}
}
if (cellvalue == 0) {
if ("general".equals(formatstringparts[2].toLowerCase())) {
formattedvalue = new CellGeneralFormatter().format(cellvalue);
} else {
formattedvalue = new CellNumberFormatter(formatstringparts[2]).format(cellvalue);
}
}
break;
case 2:
if (cellvalue >= 0) {
if ("general".equals(formatstringparts[0].toLowerCase())) {
formattedvalue = new CellGeneralFormatter().format(cellvalue);
} else {
formattedvalue = new CellNumberFormatter(formatstringparts[0]).format(cellvalue);
}
}
if (cellvalue < 0) {
if ("general".equals(formatstringparts[1].toLowerCase())) {
formattedvalue = new CellGeneralFormatter().format(cellvalue);
} else {
formattedvalue = new CellNumberFormatter(formatstringparts[1]).format(cellvalue);
}
}
break;
default:
if ("general".equals(formatstringparts[0].toLowerCase())) {
formattedvalue = new CellGeneralFormatter().format(cellvalue);
} else {
formattedvalue = new CellNumberFormatter(formatstringparts[0]).format(cellvalue);
}
}
}
System.out.println(formattedvalue);
break;
//...
default:
System.out.println();
}
}
}
} catch (InvalidFormatException ifex) {
} catch (FileNotFoundException fnfex) {
} catch (IOException ioex) {
}
}
}
You could try this
row = sheet.getRow(RowNo);
// RowNo on which Row cell should have appeared
cell = row.getCell(CellNo);
// CellNo on which Position cell should have appeared on Row
cell.setCellValue("031642153283700100");
// You could also get CellFormula by using cell.getCellFormula();