Bug 51115

Summary:	Date format string like "dd\.mm\.yyyy;@" is not handled correctly.
Product:	POI	Reporter:	Wu, Fan <zjuwufan>
Component:	POI Overall	Assignee:	POI Developers List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	3.8-dev
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Server 2003
Attachments:	proposed patch to fix this bug.

Description Wu, Fan 2011-04-25 04:54:47 UTC

For cell A2 in the attached file, its fmt code is "dd\.mm\.yyyy;@". When I tried to call DateFormatter.getFormat(Cell cell) to get the corresponding Format, the backslash was not unescaped.

Comment 1 Wu, Fan 2011-04-25 04:57:27 UTC

Created attachment 26933 [details]
proposed patch to fix this bug.

Comment 2 Nick Burch 2011-05-03 05:42:38 UTC

Thanks, applied (with slight tweak + unit test) in r1098917.