title: Why is my code skipping blank fields?
body: <p>I'm using apache poi to read from excel files but when it comes to the empty cells it skips the cell. Why is it so? I've placed a if else condition to catch it. Here's my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>while (cellIterator.hasNext()) {
  
      cell = (XSSFCell) cellIterator.next();
          if(cell.getCellType() == Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC)
          {
              if(DateUtil.isCellDateFormatted(cell))
              {
  </code></pre>