How to read and write excel file

Question

I want to read and write an Excel file from Java with 3 columns and N rows, printing one string in each cell. Can anyone give me simple code snippet for this? Do I need to

Answer 1

You need Apache POI library and this code below should help you

    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileInputStream;
    import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
    import java.io.FileOutputStream;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.util.ArrayList;
    import java.util.List;
    import java.util.Iterator;
    //*************************************************************
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row;
    import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook;
    import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet;
    import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;

    //*************************************************************
   public class AdvUse {

    private static Workbook wb ; 
    private static Sheet sh ; 
    private static FileInputStream fis ; 
    private static FileOutputStream fos  ; 
    private static Row row  ; 
    private static Cell cell  ;
    private static String ExcelPath ; 

    //*************************************************************
    public static void setEcxelFile(String ExcelPath, String SheetName) throws Exception {
    try {
   File f= new File(ExcelPath); 
   if(!f.exists()){
       f.createNewFile();
       System.out.println("File not Found so created");
   }

    fis = new FileInputStream("./testData.xlsx");
    wb = WorkbookFactory.create(fis); 
    sh = wb.getSheet("SheetName");
    if(sh == null){
        sh = wb.getSheet(SheetName); 
    }
    }catch(Exception e)
    {System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
    }

      //*************************************************************
      public static void setCellData(String text , int rowno , int colno){
    try{
        row = sh.getRow(rowno);
        if(row == null){
            row = sh.createRow(rowno);
        }
        cell = row.getCell(colno);
        if(cell!=null){
            cell.setCellValue(text);

        }
        else{
            cell = row.createCell(colno);
            cell.setCellValue(text);

        }
        fos = new FileOutputStream(ExcelPath);
        wb.write(fos);
        fos.flush();
        fos.close();
    }catch(Exception e){
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
    }

      //*************************************************************
      public static String getCellData(int rowno , int colno){
        try{

            cell = sh.getRow(rowno).getCell(colno); 
            String CellData = null ;
            switch(cell.getCellType()){
            case  STRING :
                CellData = cell.getStringCellValue();
               break ; 
            case NUMERIC : 
                CellData = Double.toString(cell.getNumericCellValue());
                if(CellData.contains(".o")){
                    CellData = CellData.substring(0,CellData.length()-2);

                }
            break ; 
            case BLANK : 
            CellData = ""; break ; 

            }
            return CellData;
        }catch(Exception e){return ""; }
    }

       //*************************************************************
      public static int getLastRow(){
        return sh.getLastRowNum();
    }