I'm using the Apache POi HSSF library to import info into my application. The problem is that the files have some extra/empty rows that need to be removed first before parsing.
There's not a HSSFSheet.removeRow( int rowNum )
method. Only removeRow( HSSFRow row )
. The problem with this it that empty rows can't be removed. For example:
sheet.removeRow( sheet.getRow(rowNum) );
gives a NullPointerException on empty rows because getRow()
returns null.
Also, as I read on forums, removeRow()
only erases the cell contents but the row is still there as an empty row.
Is there a way of removing rows (empty or not) without creating a whole new sheet without the rows that I want to remove?
/**
* Remove a row by its index
* @param sheet a Excel sheet
* @param rowIndex a 0 based index of removing row
*/
public static void removeRow(HSSFSheet sheet, int rowIndex) {
int lastRowNum=sheet.getLastRowNum();
if(rowIndex>=0&&rowIndex<lastRowNum){
sheet.shiftRows(rowIndex+1,lastRowNum, -1);
}
if(rowIndex==lastRowNum){
HSSFRow removingRow=sheet.getRow(rowIndex);
if(removingRow!=null){
sheet.removeRow(removingRow);
}
}
}