reading Excel Open XML is ignoring blank cells

Question

I am using the accepted solution here to convert an excel sheet into a datatable. This works fine if I have \"perfect\" data but if I have a blank cell in the middle of my

Answer 1

You can use this function to extract a cell from a row passing the header index:

public static Cell GetCellFromRow(Row r ,int headerIdx) {
        string cellname = GetNthColumnName(headerIdx) + r.RowIndex.ToString();
        IEnumerable cells = r.Elements().Where(x=> x.CellReference == cellname);
        if (cells.Count() > 0)
        {
            return cells.First();
        }
        else {
            return null;
        }
}
public static string GetNthColumnName(int n)
    {
        string name = "";
        while (n > 0)
        {
            n--;
            name = (char)('A' + n % 26) + name;
            n /= 26;
        }
        return name;
    }