General: Magic __toString() method added to Cell object to return raw data value as a string

Classes/PHPExcel/Cell.php

@@ -935,5 +935,15 @@ class PHPExcel_Cell
 		return $this->_formulaAttributes;
 	}
 
+    /**
+     * Convert to string
+     *
+     * @return string
+     */
+	public function __toString()
+	{
+		return (string) $this->getValue();
+	}
+
 }
 

changelog.txt

@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ Fixed in develop branch:
 - Feature:  (MBaker)     Modified ERF and ERFC Engineering functions to accept Excel 2010's modified acceptance of negative arguments
 - General:  (alexgann)   Add Currency detection to the Advanced Value Binder
 - General:  (MBaker)     Work item 18404 - setCellValueExplicitByColumnAndRow() do not return PHPExcel_Worksheet
+- General:  (MBaker)     Work item 18324 - Reader factory doesn't read anymore XLTX and XLT files
+- General:  (MBaker)     Magic __toString() method added to Cell object to return raw data value as a string
 - Bugfix:   (cyberconte) Patch 12318 - OOCalc cells containing <text:span> inside the <text:p> tag
 - Bugfix:   (schir1964)  Fix to listWorksheetInfo() method for OOCalc Reader
 - Bugfix:   (MBaker)     Support for "e" (epoch) date format mask