Apache POI xls column Remove

Question

I don\'t find how to remove a column with the Apache POI API.
I would appreciate a sample code or help on this point.

Answer 1

There is a term confusion: the action that author author would like to achieve is called column shift it terms of Apache POI interface. org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet interface provide a clean method to do such thing:

sheet.shiftColumns(startRangeIndex, endRangeIndex, directionQuantifier);

For instance, moving Column B to one position left is easily achievable by calling:

Sheet sheet = loadRequiredSheet();
sheet.shiftColumns(2, 3, -1);

Column A        Column B                 Column C
Data here    to be removed   <- t should be moved to the left