Question

I need to write a Double value in a numeric cell using a specific format, i mean, the generated xls must have numeric cells containing Double values like, for example: 8,1. I am trying something like:

DecimalFormat dFormat = new DecimalFormat("##.#");
dFormat.format(doubleValue);

But, since format method returns a String, no matter whether I create cells as numeric or not, they always behave as text cells. I was thinking about two options:

• Forcing cells to behave as numeric cells.
• Forgetting about DecimalFormat and use Double class specifying comma as the decimal separator, what i’m not sure it’s possible.

Any idea?

Answer 1

I may be missing something, but I think you just want to style the cell with a format rule to display a single decimal place

// Do this only once per file
CellStyle cellStyle = wb.createCellStyle();
cellStyle.setDataFormat(
    wb.getCreationHelper().createDataFormat().getFormat("#.#"));

// Create the cell
Cell c = row.createCell(2);
c.setCellValue(8.1);
c.setCellStyle(cellStyle);

That will create a formatting rule, create a cell, set the cell to be the value 8.1, then style it