numeric cell type

[Abhinav Srivastava <wr...@gmail.com>]

While reading a XLS using HSSF, cells which contain numbers
are being returned as type NUMERIC. e.g a cell having 2 would have its
value returned as 2.0 (double) and not as "2" as I would like it to.
any help?

Re: numeric cell type

[Daniel Noll <da...@nuix.com.au>]

Abhinav Srivastava wrote:
> While reading a XLS using HSSF, cells which contain numbers
> are being returned as type NUMERIC. e.g a cell having 2 would have its
> value returned as 2.0 (double) and not as "2" as I would like it to.
> any help?

If the value is supposed to be a string, then enter it as a string.

Type '2 instead of 2 into the cell and you'll see what I mean.

Daniel


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