Java tutorial
/* * The MIT License * * Copyright 2014 Admin. * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN * THE SOFTWARE. */ package testpoi; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.util.Iterator; import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell; import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row; import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet; import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook; /* Read rows randomly from an excel file containing strings and numeric values */ /** * * @author Admin */ public class ReadExcelRowsRandomly { public static void main(String args[]) { try { FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File( "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Admin\\My Documents\\NetBeansProjects\\TestPOI\\Docs\\1.xlsx")); //Get the workbook instance for XLS file XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(file); //Get first sheet from the workbook XSSFSheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0); double random = Math.random(); int rowNum = (int) (random * sheet.getPhysicalNumberOfRows()); Row row = sheet.getRow(rowNum); Iterator<Cell> cellIterator = row.cellIterator(); while (cellIterator.hasNext()) { Cell cell = cellIterator.next(); if (cell.getCellType() == Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC) { double cellValue = cell.getNumericCellValue(); System.out.print(cellValue + "\t"); } else if (cell.getCellType() == Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING) { String cellValue = cell.getStringCellValue(); System.out.print(cellValue + "\t"); } } System.out.println(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }