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()) {

   ...
   ...

            


        

Answer 1

Try this code.

XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(new File(result));
    XSSFSheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);

    // Iterate through each rows one by one
    Iterator rowIterator = sheet.iterator();
    while (rowIterator.hasNext()) {
        Row row = rowIterator.next();
        // For each row, iterate through all the columns
        Iterator cellIterator = row.cellIterator();

        while (cellIterator.hasNext()) {
            Cell cell = cellIterator.next();
            switch (cell.getCellType()) {
            case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
                if (cell.getNumericCellValue() != 0) {
                    //Get date
                    Date date = row.getCell(0).getDateCellValue();



                    //Get datetime
                    cell.getDateCellValue()


                    System.out.println(date.getTime());
                }
                break;
            }
        }
    }

Hope is help.