Cannot get a text value from a numeric cell “Poi”

Question

I\'m trying to consume data from a spreadsheet in Excel, but always of this error, already tried formatting the worksheet to text and number and still the error persists.

Answer 1

If you are processing in rows with cellIterator....then this worked for me ....

  DataFormatter formatter = new DataFormatter();   
  while(cellIterator.hasNext())
  {                         
        cell = cellIterator.next();
        String val = "";            
        switch(cell.getCellType()) 
        {
            case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
                val = String.valueOf(formatter.formatCellValue(cell));
                break;
            case Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
                val = formatter.formatCellValue(cell);
                break;
        }
    .....
    .....
  }