Java POI : How to read Excel cell value and not the formula computing it?

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For formula cells, excel stores two things. One is the Formula itself, the other is the “cached” value (the last value that the forumla was evaluated as)

If you want to get the last cached value (which may no longer be correct, but as long as Excel saved the file and you haven’t changed it it should be), you’ll want something like:

 for(Cell cell : row) {
     if(cell.getCellType() == Cell.CELL_TYPE_FORMULA) {
        System.out.println("Formula is " + cell.getCellFormula());
        switch(cell.getCachedFormulaResultType()) {
            case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
                System.out.println("Last evaluated as: " + cell.getNumericCellValue());
                break;
            case Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
                System.out.println("Last evaluated as \"" + cell.getRichStringCellValue() + "\"");
                break;
        }
     }
 }

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