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42 changes: 32 additions & 10 deletions lib/POIUtility.cfc
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LOCAL.CellType = LOCAL.Cell.GetCellType();


// Get teh value of the cell based on the data type. The thing
// to worry about here is cell forumlas and cell dates. Formulas
// can be strange and dates are stored as numeric types. For
// this demo, I am not going to worry about that at all. I will
// just grab dates as floats and formulas I will try to grab as
// numeric values.
// Get the value of the cell based on the data type. The thing
// to worry about here is cell formulas and cell dates. Formulas
// can be strange and dates are stored as numeric types. For
// this demo, I am not going to worry about formulas
// (and just try to grab them as numeric values).

// I will convert the date numerics to M/D/YY format as described here:
// http://poi.apache.org/faq.html#faq-N1008D
if (LOCAL.CellType EQ LOCAL.Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC) {

// Get numeric cell data. This could be a standard number,
// could also be a date value. I am going to leave it up to
// the calling program to decide.

// Get numeric cell data. This could be a standard number,
// could also be a date value.
LOCAL.CellValue = LOCAL.Cell.GetNumericCellValue();

// test for numeric that's formatted as a date and if so, convert it back to
// a a String that's formatted M/D/YY

LOCAL.HSSFDateUtil = CreateObject(
"java",
"org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFDateUtil"
);

if (LOCAL.HSSFDateUtil.isCellDateFormatted(LOCAL.Cell)) {
LOCAL.Cal = CreateObject("java", "java.util.Calendar").getInstance();

// format in form of M/D/YY
LOCAL.Cal.setTime(LOCAL.HSSFDateUtil.getJavaDate(LOCAL.CellValue));

LOCAL.CellValue = LOCAL.Cal.get(LOCAL.Cal.MONTH)+1 & "/" &
LOCAL.Cal.get(LOCAL.Cal.DAY_OF_MONTH) & "/" &
(CreateObject("java", "java.lang.String").
valueOf(LOCAL.Cal.get(LOCAL.Cal.YEAR))).substring(2);
}


} else if (LOCAL.CellType EQ LOCAL.Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING){

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