how to read excel file from java.

[vijay tandel]

i have created an excel file. that is somthing like follow

Sr No Command Options Description

1 en -- enable terminal
2 config terminal terminal configuration
network network configuration
host host configuration


and so on

now i wanna read this file from java and wanna take action according to the
command in excel file. i dont know how to do it.

so please give me the solution for the same.

[shaolang]

Harlow,

I don't really understand what you mean by reading the commands in Excel.

Anyway, you can download the POI library from Apache http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/index.html. This is a set of Java API to access icrosoft Format Files.

[DrClap]

A better option is to not use Excel for that sort of thing. An ordinary text file is just as easy to maintain and a lot easier to handle in Java.