HSSF POI : How to know if data in cell is of Type Date?

Question

Currently i have my code as

bean.setREPO_DATE(row.getCell(16).getDateCellValue());

it works fine if cell is formatted as date in excel.

Answer 1

Try this,

use import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.DateUtil;

if(DateUtil.isCellDateFormatted(cell))
   {
       cell.getDateCellValue();
   }