How to check if an excel cell is empty using Apache POI?

Question

I am taking input from an excel sheet using Poi.jar and wanted to know how to check if a cell is empty or not.

Right now I m using the below code.

cell = myRow.getCell(3);
if (cell != null) {
    cell.setCellType(Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING);

    //System.out.print(cell.getStringCellValue() + "\t\t");
    if (cell.getStringCellValue() != "")
        depend[p] = Integer.parseInt(cell.getStringCellValue());

    }
}

Answer 1

If you're using Apache POI 4.x, you can do that with:

 Cell c = row.getCell(3);
 if (c == null || c.getCellType() == CellType.Blank) {
    // This cell is empty
 }

For older Apache POI 3.x versions, which predate the move to the CellType enum, it's:

 Cell c = row.getCell(3);
 if (c == null || c.getCellType() == Cell.CELL_TYPE_BLANK) {
    // This cell is empty
 }

Don't forget to check if the Row is null though - if the row has never been used with no cells ever used or styled, the row itself might be null!