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Posted to dev@poi.apache.org by Danny Mui <da...@muibros.com> on 2003/04/17 22:17:52 UTC
Re: read a cell contents which have been derived from a formula (WAS:
Re: Unary Minus Operators...)
Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> Danny Mui wrote:
>
>> if you're reading an excel spreadsheet (not creating from scratch)
>> then the value will be provided by Excel. If you're creating from
>> scratch, I don't recall the formulaparser being able to do that ;).
>> All it does is create the proper tokens for Excel to interpret. It's
>> pretty scary to think of the effort/complexity in offering this since
>> there's so much involved (names/cell references...ranges..).
>
>
> neah...we'll get to it one day. Not that big of a deal.
so many dependencies, makes the head hurt....not much of a
compiler/parsing guy.
add an RFE and vote for it and one day it will be addressed...