Hi, it appears that there are duplicate string entries in the SSTRecord.
Which version of Excel was this file created with?
-- Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Neudorfer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: Can not create HSSFWorkbook for the file attached
> We get the same error with the first try with our file and now we search
> about a workarrount for this bug. I check our version, it is the newest
> version from POI.
>
> We have to import some files like this file into our database and we
> hope POI can help us that we never have to make some CSV-files before we
> can work with this data.
>
>
>
>
> Iouri Michtchenko wrote:
>
> >Could anybody test this file?
> >When I do :
> >
> >HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook(new FileInputStream("test.xls"));
> >
> >It throws an exception:
> >
> >net.sourceforge.poi.hssf.record.RecordFormatException: Unable to
construct
> >record instance
> >net.sourceforge.poi.hssf.record.Record[]
> >net.sourceforge.poi.hssf.record.RecordFactory.createRecord(short, short,
> >byte[]) (RecordFactory.java:271)
> >java.util.List
>
>net.sourceforge.poi.hssf.record.RecordFactory.createRecords(java.io.InputSt
r
> >eam) (RecordFactory.java:202)
> >void
>
>net.sourceforge.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(net.sourceforge.poi.
p
> >oifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem) (HSSFWorkbook.java:156)
> >void
>
>net.sourceforge.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook.<init>(java.io.InputStream)
> >(HSSFWorkbook.java:191)
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
>
>
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