Apache POI : How to format numeric cell values

Question

I am using Apache POI 3.9 for XLS/XLSX file processing.

In the XLS sheet, there is a column with numeric value like \"3000053406\".

When I read it with POI w

Answer 1

Problem can be strictly Java-related, not POI related, too. Since your call returns a double,

double val = cell.getNumericCellValue();

You may want to get this

DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#"); int fractionalDigits = 2; // say 2 df.setMaximumFractionDigits(fractionalDigits); double val = df.format(val);