Convert Text to Columns using Aspose.Cells

Possible Usage Scenarios

You can convert your Text to Columns using Microsoft Excel. This feature is available from Data Tools under the Data tab. In order to split the contents of a column to multiple columns, the data should contain a specific delimiter such as a comma (or any other character) based on which Microsoft Excel splits the contents of a cell to multiple cells. Aspose.Cells also provides this feature via TextToColumns method.

Convert Text to Columns using Aspose.Cells

The following sample code explains the usage of the TextToColumns method. The code first adds some people names in column A of the first worksheet. The first and last name is separated by space character. Then it applies the TextToColumns method on column A and saves it as output excel file. If you open the output excel file, you will see, first names are in column A while last names are in column B as shown in this screenshot.

Sample Code

// The path to the documents directory.
String dataDir = Utils.getSharedDataDir(ConvertTexttoCols.class) + "rows_cloumns/";
		
//Create a workbook.
Workbook wb = new Workbook();
	  
//Access first worksheet.
Worksheet ws = wb.getWorksheets().get(0);
		  
//Add people name in column A. Fast name and Last name are separated by space.
ws.getCells().get("A1").putValue("John Teal");
ws.getCells().get("A2").putValue("Peter Graham");
ws.getCells().get("A3").putValue("Brady Cortez");
ws.getCells().get("A4").putValue("Mack Nick");
ws.getCells().get("A5").putValue("Hsu Lee");
		  
//Create text load options with space as separator.
TxtLoadOptions opts = new TxtLoadOptions();
opts.setSeparator(' ');
	  
//Split the column A into two columns using TextToColumns() method.
//Now column A will have first name and column B will have second name.
ws.getCells().textToColumns(0, 0, 5, opts);
		  
//Save the workbook in xlsx format.
wb.save(dataDir + "outputTextToColumns.xlsx");