RE: Using Java in RPGLE - cell comments and document properties

Peter,

You generally test both rows and cells to see if they're null before doing 
anything with them.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dow [mailto:maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:19 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Using Java in RPGLE - cell comments and document properties


Thanks Matt, Mike!

That's a good idea about the template spreadsheet Matt; the sample program
Scott provided reads in a spreadsheet, modifies it, and writes it out, which
should work for my purposes -- the Jakarta website says they've tried very
hard not to disturb records they don't operate on so that this kind of thing
will be possible.

If I knew enough Java it would be fun to try adding a NOTE record.

That just reminded me of something else.  When I was running Scott's demo
programs, I failed to put enough records in the DIVSALES physical file
that's used to populate the spreadsheet, and as a result, the cell that the
update program was going to modify did not exist, and Java threw an
exception.  Is there some way to test for the existence of a cell before
trying to read it?  Or to catch the Java exception?

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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