Thanks for letting me know David. "Karr, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That strategy worked perfectly. I was already using merged regions to determine the "value" for a cell, so it was easy enough to generate a report at the start showing all the cell coordinates with "hidden" values.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:42 PM > To: POI Users List > Subject: Re: How to detect hidden data "under" merged regions? > > It is possible to obtain a list of all of the merged ranges > of cells in the sheet. I have never done this in practice but > I think that you will need to call the getNumMergedRegions() > method on the sheet to recover an int value indicating the > number of merged regions and then use a for loop to iterate > through calling the getMergedRegionAt() method to recover a > Region object that identifies - amongst other things - the > co-ordinates of the cells at the top left hand and bottom > right hand corners of the cell. > > Knowing the locations and sizes of all of the merged regions, > you could write a simple method to iterate through the cells > contained within each merged range and simply check to see if > any bar the top left hand cell contains a value. Best I can > think of at this time in the morning. > > "Karr, David" wrote: I just discovered > a curious anomaly in a large spreadsheet I'm parsing with > POI. I discovered that there is at least one merged region (1 row, > 2 columns) that shows a particular value when I view it in > Excel, but I discovered that there is hidden data "under" the > merged region in the second cell in the merged region. If I > use POI to just iterate through all the rows and columns, > retrieving the cell data, it shows the value that I can see > in the merged region (from the first column cell), but also > the value from the second column cell. I can also see this > in Excel if I select the entire second column, then "Copy", > then paste into an external editor. It shows the hidden value. > > I need to figure out a way to detect this kind of condition with POI. > If the cell is hidden like this, I want to ignore it. Can > merged regions tell me this somehow? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi > The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ > > > > > --------------------------------- > TV dinner still cooling? > Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.
