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Cannot read more than 255 charactes when excel file is saved in "Load xls files saved in the format "Microsoft Excel 97- Excel 2003 & 5.0/95 Workbook" #46

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. enter more the 255 characters in a cell in a excel sheet
2. Save the excel sheet in this format "Load xls files saved in the format 
"Microsoft Excel 97- Excel 2003 & 5.0/95 Workbook"
3. load the excel sheet using loadByteArray()
4. trying reading more than 255 characters from the cell 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected Output --> should read all the contents from the cell
Actual Otuput --> Read only the first 255 characters of the cell

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by ajiayyap...@gmail.com on 13 May 2011 at 10:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
We just encountered this issue today.  Were you able to resolve this?

Original comment by carey.th...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2012 at 4:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This issue is related to Issue 45. This is a limitation of the BIFF2 binary 
format that this library uses when reading/writing files.

Original comment by thesande...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2012 at 10:33