Find if the cell value starts with single quote mark
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Aspose.Cells now provides the Style.QuotePrefix property to find if the cell value starts with a single quote mark. Before this property, there was no way to distinguish between strings like sample and ‘sample etc.
Find if the cell value starts with single quote mark
The following sample code explains that the strings like sample and ‘sample cannot be differentiated with Cell.StringValue property. Therefore we must use Style.QuotePrefix property to distinguish them.
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//Create an instance of workbook | |
Workbook workbook = new Workbook(); | |
//Access first worksheet from the collection | |
Worksheet worksheet = workbook.getWorksheets().get(0); | |
//Access cells A1 and A2 | |
Cell a1 = worksheet.getCells().get("A1"); | |
Cell a2 = worksheet.getCells().get("A2"); | |
//Add simple text to cell A1 and text with quote prefix to cell A2 | |
a1.putValue("sample"); | |
a2.putValue("'sample"); | |
//Print their string values, A1 and A2 both are same | |
System.out.println("String value of A1: " + a1.getStringValue()); | |
System.out.println("String value of A2: " + a2.getStringValue()); | |
//Access styles of cells A1 and A2 | |
Style s1 = a1.getStyle(); | |
Style s2 = a2.getStyle(); | |
System.out.println(); | |
//Check if A1 and A2 has a quote prefix | |
System.out.println("A1 has a quote prefix: " + s1.getQuotePrefix()); | |
System.out.println("A2 has a quote prefix: " + s2.getQuotePrefix()); |