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 use any external lib or does Java have built-in support for it?

I want to do the following:

for(i=0; i <rows; i++)
     //read [i,col1] ,[i,col2], [i,col3]

for(i=0; i<rows; i++)
    //write [i,col1], [i,col2], [i,col3]

Answer 1

For reading a xlsx file we can use Apache POI libs Try this:

public static void readXLSXFile() throws IOException
    {
        InputStream ExcelFileToRead = new FileInputStream("C:/Test.xlsx");
        XSSFWorkbook  wb = new XSSFWorkbook(ExcelFileToRead);

        XSSFWorkbook test = new XSSFWorkbook(); 

        XSSFSheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);
        XSSFRow row; 
        XSSFCell cell;

        Iterator rows = sheet.rowIterator();

        while (rows.hasNext())
        {
            row=(XSSFRow) rows.next();
            Iterator cells = row.cellIterator();
            while (cells.hasNext())
            {
                cell=(XSSFCell) cells.next();

                if (cell.getCellType() == XSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_STRING)
                {
                    System.out.print(cell.getStringCellValue()+" ");
                }
                else if(cell.getCellType() == XSSFCell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC)
                {
                    System.out.print(cell.getNumericCellValue()+" ");
                }
                else
                {
                    //U Can Handel Boolean, Formula, Errors
                }
            }
            System.out.println();
        }

    }

Answer 2

A simple CSV file should suffice

Answer 3

using spring apache poi repo

if (fileName.endsWith(".xls")) {



File myFile = new File("file location" + fileName);
                FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(myFile);

                org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook workbook = null;
                try {
                    workbook = WorkbookFactory.create(fis);
                } catch (InvalidFormatException e) {

                    e.printStackTrace();
                }


                org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);


                Iterator<Row> rowIterator = sheet.iterator();


                while (rowIterator.hasNext()) {
                    Row row = rowIterator.next();

                    Iterator<Cell> cellIterator = row.cellIterator();
                    while (cellIterator.hasNext()) {

                        Cell cell = cellIterator.next();
                        switch (cell.getCellType()) {
                        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
                            System.out.print(cell.getStringCellValue());
                            break;
                        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_BOOLEAN:
                            System.out.print(cell.getBooleanCellValue());
                            break;
                        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
                            System.out.print(cell.getNumericCellValue());
                            break;
                        }
                        System.out.print(" - ");
                    }
                    System.out.println();
                }
            }

Answer 4

If column number are varing you can use this

package com.org.tests;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.*;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ExcelSimpleTest 
{   
    String path;
    public FileInputStream fis = null;
    private XSSFWorkbook workbook = null;
    private XSSFSheet sheet = null;
    private XSSFRow row   =null;
    private XSSFCell cell = null;

    public ExcelSimpleTest() throws IOException
    {
        path = System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\resources\\Book1.xlsx";
        fis = new FileInputStream(path); 
        workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(fis);
        sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);
    }
    public void ExelWorks()
    {
        int index = workbook.getSheetIndex("Sheet1");
        sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(index);
        int rownumber=sheet.getLastRowNum()+1;  

        for (int i=1; i<rownumber; i++ )
        {
            row = sheet.getRow(i);
            int colnumber = row.getLastCellNum();
            for (int j=0; j<colnumber; j++ )
            {
                cell = row.getCell(j);
                System.out.println(cell.getStringCellValue());
            }
        }
    }   
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException 
    {
        ExcelSimpleTest excelwork = new ExcelSimpleTest();
        excelwork.ExelWorks();
    }
}

The corresponding mavendependency can be found here

Answer 5

This will write a JTable to a tab separated file that can be easily imported into Excel. This works.

If you save an Excel worksheet as an XML document you could also build the XML file for EXCEL with code. I have done this with word so you do not have to use third-party packages.

This could code have the JTable taken out and then just write a tab separated to any text file and then import into Excel. I hope this helps.

Code:

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.table.TableModel;

public class excel {
    String columnNames[] = { "Column 1", "Column 2", "Column 3" };

    // Create some data
    String dataValues[][] =
    {
        { "12", "234", "67" },
        { "-123", "43", "853" },
        { "93", "89.2", "109" },
        { "279", "9033", "3092" }
    };

    JTable table;

    excel() {
        table = new JTable( dataValues, columnNames );
    }


    public void toExcel(JTable table, File file){
        try{
            TableModel model = table.getModel();
            FileWriter excel = new FileWriter(file);

            for(int i = 0; i < model.getColumnCount(); i++){
                excel.write(model.getColumnName(i) + "\t");
            }

            excel.write("\n");

            for(int i=0; i< model.getRowCount(); i++) {
                for(int j=0; j < model.getColumnCount(); j++) {
                    excel.write(model.getValueAt(i,j).toString()+"\t");
                }
                excel.write("\n");
            }

            excel.close();

        }catch(IOException e){ System.out.println(e); }
    }

    public static void main(String[] o) {
        excel cv = new excel();
        cv.toExcel(cv.table,new File("C:\\Users\\itpr13266\\Desktop\\cs.tbv"));
    }
}

Answer 6

String path="C:\\Book2.xlsx";
try {

        File f = new File( path );
        Workbook wb = WorkbookFactory.create(f);
        Sheet mySheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);
        Iterator<Row> rowIter = mySheet.rowIterator();
        for ( Iterator<Row> rowIterator = mySheet.rowIterator() ;rowIterator.hasNext(); )
        {
            for (  Iterator<Cell> cellIterator = ((Row)rowIterator.next()).cellIterator() ; cellIterator.hasNext() ;  ) 
            {
                System.out.println ( ( (Cell)cellIterator.next() ).toString() );
            }
            System.out.println( " **************************************************************** ");
        }
    } catch ( Exception e )
    {
        System.out.println( "exception" );
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

and make sure to have added the jars poi and poi-ooxml (org.apache.poi) to your project