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Thread: Retrieve from Microsoft Excel document for CodeGenerator?

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    Default Retrieve from Microsoft Excel document for CodeGenerator?

    Basically, I have a code generator that I've made in java (that generates code for a Visual Basic Quiz program I'm making) that I would like to make more effecient by using it with a database.

    If anyone is interested, this is what it looks like:
    import java.io.*;
    	import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
    	import java.io.FileOutputStream;
    	import java.io.PrintStream;
    	import java.util.Vector;
    	public class codegen {
    		static int qnum = 1;
    		static int snum = 1;
    	  public static void main(String[] a) {
    	    Vector victor;
     
    	    int size = 10;
     
    	    victor = new Vector(size);
    	    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
    	      victor.addElement(new Integer(i));
     
    	    try {
    	      PrintStream out = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(
    	          "OutFile.txt"));
    	      for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
    	    	  while (snum <= 15){
    	    		  if (qnum <= 71){	
    						out.println("ElseIf Randq = " + qnum + " And sec" + snum + "(" + qnum + ") < 3 Then");
    						out.println("answrstrng = ''");
    						out.println("If usrinput = answrstrng Then");
    						out.println("Correct.Text += 1");
    						out.println("sec" + snum + "(" + qnum + ") += 1");
    						out.println("Else");
    						out.println("Incorrect.Text += 1");
    						out.println("sec" + snum + "(" + qnum + ") -= 1");
    						out.println("canswer.Text = answrstrng");
    						out.println("End If");
    						++qnum;
    					}
    					else {
    						qnum = 1;
    						snum++;
    					}
    	    	  }
    	      out.close();
     
    	    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    	      e.printStackTrace();
    	    }
    	  }
    	}

    It would make things a lot easier for me, and make the code generator complete, if where it says
    out.println("answrstrng = ''");
    i could replace the '' with text from the cell of an excel document. For example, if cell A1 said "Fiji" in the document, it would print answrstrng = "fiji".

    I don't really know anything about Java databases, so if there's another way I should do this outside of microsoft excel, information on that would help me too.

    Thanks!


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    Default Re: Retrieve from Microsoft Excel document for CodeGenerator?

    I'm confused as to what you are asking...do you wish to use Excel, or a relational database (quite different things)? For excel, you can use 3rd party libraries such as Apache POI to read and write the file. For a relational database, you should learn SQL (and there are many options to choose from: Derby, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc...)

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