How to read an excel sheet in java

Question

hi all!
i want to read data from an excel sheet.could U plz send me the code from scratch.
thanks in advance

Answer 1

Look for jxl.jar (http://www.andykhan.com/jexcelapi/) or jexcel. Worked fine for me. And as for the code: see the example programs and documentation....
Sample:
     private ArrayList procesExcelFile(File file){
          logger.info("Processing XSL file ("+file.getAbsolutePath()+")");          
          ArrayList result = new ArrayList();
          Hashtable xlsRow = null;
          int row;
          try{
               // Open sheet
               WorkbookSettings wbs = new WorkbookSettings();
               wbs.setInitialFileSize( (int) file.length());
               Workbook workbook = Workbook.getWorkbook(file,wbs);
               Sheet sheet = workbook.getSheet(0);
               // Init XML tags on 1st header
               this.readTagLine(sheet.getRow(0));
               // Read sheet row by row, skip first & empty rows
               for(row = 1; row < sheet.getRows(); row++){
                    xlsRow = this.convertRowToTable(sheet.getRow(row));
                    if(!xlsRow.isEmpty()){
                         result.add(xlsRow);
               logger.info("Processed XSL file, " + result.size() + " rows found (excl. header)");
          catch(IOException ioe){
               logger.error("Error reading XLS file", ioe);
               succes = "false";
          catch(BiffException be){
               logger.error("Could not get workbook from XLS file", be);
               succes = "false";
          catch(OutOfMemoryError oome){
               logger.fatal("Not enough memory for processing XLS file", oome);
               succes = "false";
          return result;
     }now gimme them Duke Dollars ;)