how to read exact cell content of excel file in apache POI

Question

when I read a content of cell for e.g. if it is in date format it casts into some another value like 12/31/2099 -> 46052 and $50.00 -> 50 and 50.00% -> 0.5.

But what

Answer 1

No need for explicit formatting, apache-poi provides for DataFormatter class as utility to leverage the format of the content as it appears on the excel. You can choose custom formats too, a simple example would be (cell is reference to your XSSFCell object):

System.out.println(new DataFormatter().formatCellValue(cell));

Excel sheet looks like:

Using DataFormatter (sop statement above) prints:

50%
$ 1,200
12/21/14

Where your normal formatting would print:

0.5
1200.0
21-Dec-2014