Sending a file via PrintWriter

[Houman]

Hi,
I was wondering how I can send a file (.xls if helps) via PrintWriter
method. Thanks a lot

 

[Ryan Stewart]

Hi,
I was wondering how I can send a file (.xls if helps) via PrintWriter
method. Thanks a lot

Not likely to work well since XLS files are binary and Writers transfer
character data.

 

[Frank]

Not likely to work well since XLS files are binary and Writers transfer
character data.

While it's true, that unless you know something about the file, you should
treat it as binary, and hence using any form of Writer will be a bad idea,
unless you opt to use some sort of encoding, such as Base64.

As for XLS... I thought the new versions (2002 and future versions) of
Excel (or rather MS Office files in general) were a proprietary element
set, but the file was itself pure XML? In which case, you should be able
to obtain a Reader for the file (you'll need to make sure to select one
using the right charset) and then load from the reader into a char[], then
write back to your Writer.

HTH

Frank