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How to add Length Formula to Excel Spreadsheet 

Java Excel API is an open source java library to read, write and modify Excel spread sheets. This requires the library jxl-2.6.12.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows how to add length formula to a Cell in Excel Spreadsheet.

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/jexcelapi/write/LenFormulaTest.java 
Author  :  Sudhakar KV
Email  :  [email protected]
   
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.jexcelapi.write;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import jxl.Workbook;
import jxl.read.biff.BiffException;
import jxl.write.Formula;
import jxl.write.Label;
import jxl.write.WritableSheet;
import jxl.write.WritableWorkbook;
import jxl.write.WriteException;
import jxl.write.biff.RowsExceededException;

public class LenFormulaTest {

  /**
   @param args
   @throws IOException 
   @throws IOException 
   @throws WriteException 
   @throws BiffException 
   */
  public static void main(String[] argsthrows IOException, WriteException {
    //Creates a writable workbook with the given file name
    WritableWorkbook workbook = Workbook.createWorkbook(new File("C:/JXL/LenFormula.xls"));

    WritableSheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("My Sheet"0);

    addFormulaCells(sheet, "Java"0);
    addFormulaCells(sheet, "jexcel api"1);
    addFormulaCells(sheet, "BE THE CODER"2);
    
    //Writes out the data held in this workbook in Excel format
    workbook.write()

    //Close and free allocated memory 
    workbook.close()
  }

  private static void addFormulaCells(
      WritableSheet sheet, 
      String str, int rowthrows RowsExceededException, WriteException {
    
    //Add Lab in A - column
    Label label = new Label(0, row, str);
    sheet.addCell(label);
    
    String formula = "LEN(\"" + str + "\"";
    
    //Create a formula for IFELSE
    Formula formulaCell = new Formula(1, row, formula);
    sheet.addCell(formulaCell);
  }
}
   

It gives the following output,
len-formula.gif


 
  


  
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