How I can determine empty rows in .xls documents using Apache POI?
You have to iterate through all cells in the row and check if they are all empty. I don't know any other solution...
short c;
for (c = lastRow.getFirstCellNum(); c <= lastRow.getLastCellNum(); c++) {
cell = lastRow.getCell(c);
if (cell != null && lastRow.getCell(c).getCellType() != HSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_BLANK) {
nonBlankRowFound = true;
}
}
The code is from here