Thanks for testing, and correcting(!!), that code.

Yours

Mark B

sarna wrote:
> 
> 
> This works with one bug:  ArrayList tables is null so just correcting to
> ArrayList tables = new ArrayList(); solves the null exception.
> 
> 
> MSB wrote:
>> 
>> Right, managed to make some progress this evening. Have a look at the
>> class below, it assembles an ArrayList of the tables in a Word document
>> currently but you could easilly change that if you wanted to. I have
>> added lots of comments - probably too many but if you have any questions,
>> just drop a line to the forum.
>> 
>> You will need to change this line ;
>> 
>> inputFile = new File("C:\\temp\\table.doc");
>> 
>> to point to the file you wish to process by the way.
>> 
>> import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument;
>> import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.Paragraph;
>> import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.Table;
>> import org.apache.poi.hwpf.usermodel.Range;
>> 
>> import java.io.*;
>> import java.util.ArrayList;
>> 
>> /**
>>  *
>>  * TEST/DEMONSTRATION CODE ONLY.
>>  * 
>>  * @author Mark B.
>>  * @version 1.00 8th April 2009.
>>  */
>> public class Main {
>>     
>>     /**
>>      */
>>     public static void main(String[] args) {
>>         
>>         BufferedInputStream bufIStream = null;
>>         FileInputStream fileIStream = null;
>>         File inputFile = null;
>>         HWPFDocument doc = null;
>>         Range range = null;
>>         Table table = null;
>>         ArrayList<Table> tables = null;
>>         Paragraph para = null;
>>         boolean inTable = false;
>>         int numParas = 0;
>>         
>>         try {
>>             tables = new ArrayList<Table>();
>>             inputFile = new File("C:\\temp\\table.doc");
>>             fileIStream = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
>>             bufIStream = new BufferedInputStream(fileIStream);
>>             //
>>             // Open a Word document.
>>             //
>>             doc = new HWPFDocument(bufIStream);
>>             //
>>             // Get the highest level Range object that represents the
>>             // contents of the document.
>>             //
>>             range = doc.getRange();
>>             //
>>             // Get the number of paragraphs
>>             //
>>             numParas = range.numParagraphs();
>>             //
>>             // Step through each Paragraph.
>>             //
>>             for(int i = 0; i < numParas; i++) {
>>                 para = range.getParagraph(i);
>>                 //
>>                 // Is the Paragraph within a table?
>>                 //
>>                 if(para.isInTable()) {
>>                     //
>>                     // The inTable flag is used to ensure that a call is
>> made
>>                     // to the getTable() method of the Range class once
>> only
>>                     // when the first Paragraph that is within a table is
>>                     // recovered. So......
>>                     //
>>                     if(!inTable) {
>>                         //
>>                         // Get the table and add it to an ArrayList for
>> later
>>                         // processing. You do not have to do this, it
>> would
>>                         // be possible to process the table here. There
>> are
>>                         // methods defined on the Table class that allow
>> you
>>                         // to get at the number of rows in the table and
>> to
>>                         // recover a reference to each row in turn. Once
>> you
>>                         // have a row, it is possible then to get at each
>> cell
>>                         // in turn. Look at the Table, TableRow and
>> TableCell
>>                         // classes.
>>                         //
>>                         table = range.getTable(para);
>>                         tables.add(table);
>>                         inTable = true;
>>                     }
>>                 }
>>                 else {
>>                     //
>>                     // Set the flag false to indicate that all of the
>> paragrphs
>>                     // in the table have been processed. A single blank
>> line is
>>                     // sufficient to indicate the end of the tbale within
>> the
>>                     // Word document.
>>                     //
>>                     // This is also the place to deal with any non-table
>> paragraphs.
>>                     //
>>                     inTable = false;
>>                 }
>>             }
>>             //
>>             // This line simply prints out the number of tables found in
>> the
>>             // document - usede for testing purposes here.
>>             //
>>             System.out.println("Found " + tables.size() + " tables in the
>> document.");
>>         }
>>         catch(Exception ex) {
>>             System.out.println("Caught an: " + ex.getClass().getName());
>>             System.out.println("Message: " + ex.getMessage());
>>             System.out.println("Stacktrace follows:..............");
>>             ex.printStackTrace(System.out);
>>         }
>>         finally {
>>             if(bufIStream != null) {
>>                 try {
>>                     bufIStream.close();
>>                     bufIStream = null;
>>                     fileIStream = null;
>>                 }
>>                 catch(Exception ex) {
>>                     // I G N O R E //
>>                 }
>>             }
>>         }
>>         
>>     }
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> Anyone could post me the minimal code to get the list of all tables 
>>> in a word document. In particular i want to have a class from i could 
>>> extract the Object "Table" from each table in the document.
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>>> 
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