How to determine if a cell with a sheet extension contains a date or a real number?

Question

When a cell in a spreadsheet contains a simple date (mm / dd / yyyy), the poi API places the cell type as "numeric". This is probably because tables (IMO) historically recognize only strings and real numbers.

You can hard-code the cell index and use it conditionally to call 'getDateCellValue'. But that sounds like a hack.

What other ways are there in the poi API to determine if the content in a cell is a date, not a real number?

Answer 1

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