Hello again to the POI world,
I have been having an ongoing problem with HSSF's ability to load an .xls file containing
only strings. A 500kb file filled only with strings will not load, but it doesn't throw an exception or run out ram either. The process sits there taking up CPU time and slowly nibbling at system ram, and the file might take hours to load (I haven't bothered to wait that long).
In the past, I thought that POI was simply not able to load large files, but I have since discovered that it can load enormous files, as long as they contain only numeric data. The strings are the problem. I would be very grateful if anyone has an idea what causes this.
Thank you, Mike S.
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