As Nick says, just grab the first row - there is nothing special about it.
I almost sounds like you are thinking about a DBase file - they have specific column headers since they are formatted more like a DB table than a spreadsheet. If you are asking about getting the column header (i.e. A, B, C, ...), then you would want to iterate through your valid columns and do: CellReference.convertNumToColString(cell.getColumnIndex()) -Lou Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote on 2012-09-06 06:11:34 PM: > Nick Burch <[email protected]> > 2012-09-06 06:11 PM > > Please respond to > "POI Users List" <[email protected]> > > To > > [email protected], > > cc > > POI Users List <[email protected]> > > Subject > > Re: Retrieving column header. > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2012, [email protected] wrote: > > How can I get the header of a column from an excel spreadsheet. > Eg.. If I have a column header > > Column1 > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > I want to be able to retrieve the column header ie Column1. > > Grab the first row, and read the cells from that? > > Nick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
