Reading Data from Excel Sheets

[P Jain]

Hi!
I have an Excel Sheet that contains different Columns such as

SCRIPT and RESULT

I have to read data from SCRIPT column and write some data in RESULT column.
This Excel Sheet contains 10 rows.

How do I can read data (from specific column) from Excel Sheet and then write in the (specific column) Excel Sheet.

[Paul Sturrock]

This seems to be an operation contained in Excel - in which case why not do it with Excel formulae or VBA?

If you need to handle it through Java, probably the easiest route is with Jakarta POI.

[P Jain]

Hi!
Thanks for youe reply
But can I access excel file (especially csv) by using simple java.
Or it is necessary to use JDBC for this.
Because normally when we have to access text file we don't use JDBC.

[Ben Souther]

There is no native support for Excel built into Java but you can certainly parse a csv file.

Look either at Java's regexp support (1.4 or higher) or the java.util.StringTokenizer for older versions.

The java.io.BufferedReader(java.io.FileReader)
has a readLine method.