CSV generation possible with Apache POI?

Question

I need to generate csv files and I stumbled on a module in our project itself which uses Apache POI to generate excel sheets aleady. So I thought I could use the same to gen

Answer 1

Apache Poi will not output to CSV for you. However, you have a couple good options, depending on what kind of data you are writing into the csv.

If you know that none of your cells will contain csv markers such as commas, quotes, line endings, then you can loop through your data rows and copy the text into a StringBuffer and send that to regular java IO. Here is an example of writing an sql query to csv along those lines: Poi Mailing List: writing CSV

Otherwise, rather than figure out how to escape the special characters yourself, you should check out the opencsv project