How to read unformatted contents of the numeric cells using NPOI?

Question

I want to read an unformatted contents of the numeric cells (e.g. 0.05 instead of 5% and 123456 instead of 123,456.000).

I thought the easiest way to do it would be to change the format of the cell:

ICell cell = ...;
string s = cell.SetCellType(<ICell.CELL_TYPE_STRING-doesn't compile>).ToString();

but I do not know how to set string/numeric format.

All examples I have googled are either from POI or HSSF universes, they won't do for me (I am reading Excel 2007 spreadsheet using NPOI)

Answer 1

This worked for me:

string formatProofCellReading(ICell cell)
{
    if (cell == null)
    {
        return "";
    }
    if (cell.CellType == CellType.NUMERIC)
    {
        double d = cell.NumericCellValue;
        return (d.ToString());
    }
    return cell.ToString();
}