How to read Excel cell having Date with Apache POI?

Question

I\'m using Apache POI 3.6, I want to read an excel file which has a date like this 8/23/1991.

 switch (cell.getCellType()) {

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Answer 1

Yes, I understood your problem. If is difficult to identify cell has Numeric or Data value.

If you want data in format that shows in Excel, you just need to format cell using DataFormatter class.

DataFormatter dataFormatter = new DataFormatter();
String cellStringValue = dataFormatter.formatCellValue(row.getCell(0));
System.out.println ("Is shows data as show in Excel file" + cellStringValue);  // Here it automcatically format data based on that cell format.
// No need for extra efforts