. reading data from MS EXcel using apache poi api

[Abhishek Reddy]

in the excel sheet i have columns with datatype text.
columns in the excel sheet are name,phonenumber ,dob,address ...

i have copied the required information from another excel sheet into my excel sheet.

DOB (date of birth ) foramt is dd-mmm-yyyy

iam reading the data from the dob column
as string
cell.getStringCellValue();
while reading as string iam getting some random values as output, instead of the one that exist in the excel sheet..(output some double values are comming instead of dob in format dd-mmm-yyyy).

can any one suggest me how to handle this problem.

[Jaikiran Pai]

iam reading the data from the dob column
as string
cell.getStringCellValue();

Use the getDateCellValue() for reading date values.