如何检查Excel单元格文本是否包含Excel公式

Question

I am validating individual cell content of excel. For reading an excel I am using apache POI. I want to put validation on formulas text , is there any way that I can check if particular text/String contain excel formula or not using java?

please suggest some regex or pattern

Answer 1

If you are using the POI dependencies, you can simply check the type of your cell using:

if(yourCell!=null && yourCell.getCellType()== Cell.CELL_TYPE_FORMULA){
    //....
     }