Sorry I was running the dist, which failed. i see where the jar's have gone
to build\dist....perhaps the documentation could be extended to point that
out for boneheads like me.....

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:22 PM, tom corcoran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I really wish POI was available as a jar file :-( I have spent the last 3
> hours trying to build it without success. It keeps saying that JUnit is not
> available and to include the JAR file in my classpath. I have followed
> http://poi.apache.org/howtobuild.html a load of time now and many reboots
> later I get the same message :-(
>
> Tom.
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:54 AM, Doug Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Tom,
>>
>> The HSSFRow defines a CellIterator this will allow you to iterate through
>> the row and get each element. You can then write the value of the cell out
>> to a new File, just create a comma delimeted string for the row.
>>
>> Are you using Excel 97 or ExcelML formatted sheets?
>>
>> Doug Stevens
>> (541) 788-3221
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tom corcoran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:43 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Convert .xls to ascii?
>>
>>
>> I have about 10 different .xls file types. Each file has the column names
>> in
>> row 1 and has multiple sheets with the same data for different locations.
>> I
>> have hundreds of each file type. My solution need to be able to work
>> dynamically as new files come online.
>>
>> I am looking at parsing the first line to create a mysql schema and then
>> importing the xls in java using mysql's load infile. I have used this to
>> load ascii files without an issue. It seems I can use
>> org.apache.poi.hssf.eventusermodel to read the xls files. Is there any way
>> I
>> can use this package to convert to an ascii file which I will easily be
>> able
>> to load into MySQl? The delimiter used, be it comma or otherwise is
>> irrelevant as load infile can cope with an ascii delimiter.
>>
>> Thanks for advice.
>>
>> Tom.
>>
>>
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