Hi Amol.

And how this should help me? There are listed the same formats as in mentioned 
Javadoc with no information whether it formats cell to date or number.

Thanks,
Petr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amol Deshmukh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 7:35 PM
> 
> "open excel document using MS Excel" > "Right click on a cell 
> (any cell)" >
> "Format cells..." > "Number" tab > select "Custom" > Scroll 
> to see more such
> cryptic values
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrš Petr (EXT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:59 AM
> 
> I am bit confused by meaning of values returned by
> HSSFCellStyle.getDataFormat(). In JavaDoc values are maped to 
> some cryptic
> string values, but what is meaning of these values? I can 
> guess that some
> are probably date formats and others represent numbers, but in case of
> several I have no idea. Where can I find which formats 
> represent numbers and
> which dates? Or better piece of code that reads value from 
> cell and prints
> it with proper formatting?

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