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Asked: 2026-06-16T04:00:30+00:00

I try to convert numbers into european currency style with Apache POI HSSFDataFormat cf

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I try to convert numbers into european currency style with Apache POI

HSSFDataFormat cf = workbook.createDataFormat();
currencyCellStyle = workbook.createCellStyle();
currencyCellStyle.setDataFormat(cf.getFormat("#.###,#0"));

I have for example the number 2400 and 2.4

What I want is 2400,00 and 2,40 .
But POI gives me 2400,0 and 2,40.
When I try to change it to 

currencyCellStyle.setDataFormat(cf.getFormat("#.###,00"));

I get the result 2400,00 and 2,400.
Thats also not what I want.

Is there a possibility to get both values correct?

Thx and Greetings

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  1. Editorial Team

    Finally Gagravarr gave the right tips to solve this question.

    The final solution is:

    HSSFDataFormat cf = workbook.createDataFormat();
currencyCellStyle = workbook.createCellStyle();
currencyCellStyle.setDataFormat(cf.getFormat("#,##0.00\\ _€"));

    The solution came up after creating an excel file manually.
    Then read it in by Apache Poi and
    extracting the format string with

     cell.getCellStyle().getDataFormatString()

    The result was #,##0.00\ _€

    So I used this format in the upper code snippet, which gave the correct result.

    Thx

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