Re: Reading MS EXCEL file from RPG

Thanks Scott!

 I remember those articles when they came out, but just couldn't where 
they were.


Jeff Stevens
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The HSSF toolkit provides two ways of reading/parsing a spreadsheet. They 
call them the "EventModel" and "UserModel".

Personally, I've found the EventModel to be less error prone, and quicker 
when you need to read the entire sheet and not make any changes to it.
I demonstrated this technique in the following article (requires a 
membership to the System iNetwork, but a free ("Associate") membership 
should suffice)
http://tinyurl.com/y33oxy

The UserModel is better for accessing particular rows and columns if you 
need to do so in a random order, rather than sequentially reading the 
whole sheet.  It's also capable of updating a spreadsheet.  I initially 
discussed this technique in the following article (same membership 
requirement):
http://www.systeminetwork.com/article.cfm?id=19586

But, be sure to use the newer code with all of the bug fixes that I 
released earlier this year in this article (same membersup requirements:
http://www.systeminetwork.com/article.cfm?id=52713