Innoveo would be ready to pay for the development costs of adding "wildcards values" in Apache POI
As stated by Yegor Kozlov "POI's formula module is well designed and it should be possible to add support for wildcards without changing much code. Support for simple wildcards e.g. "*apples*" is straightforward and should take a few days. You will need to re-visit formula implementations and make sure they understand the wildcard syntax. Support for complex wildcards like "*"&A1&"*" is harder. It will require changes in the formula parser to support this syntax and then changes in the evaluation code. We may need to re-factor some core classes to suport it. A full-time developer familiar with the POI architecture should be able to complete this task in 7-10 days . The point is that POI is a volunteer project and people contribute in their free time, mostly off hours, by little bits." (http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cCAAwi%2dj%2dANERc%2bbSLE5aSZsJHzr%2b2PVETd%5fn4hOrQxScTpUOY4w%40mail.gmail.com%3e) Innoveo would like to see that feature supported in Apache POI core and is ready to pay individuals/ or a company to develop this feature. Are you interested? You can contact us at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
