I am trying to write some code to generate an Excel spreadsheet and I am not sure what the difference between CellValues.InlineString and CellValues.String to insert text on the cells.
Shall I use this:
private void UpdateCellTextValue(Cell cell,string cellValue)
{
InlineString inlineString = new InlineString();
Text cellValueText = new Text { Text = cellValue };
inlineString.AppendChild(cellValueText);
cell.DataType = CellValues.InlineString;
cell.AppendChild(inlineString);
}
this
private void UpdateCellTextValue(Cell cell, string cellValue)
{
cell.CellValue = new CellValue(cellValue);
cell.DataType = new EnumValue<CellValues>(CellValues.String);
}
or just this (InsertSharedStringItem returns the Id of the newly inserted shared string item)
private void SetCellSharedTextValue(Cell cell,string cellValue)
{
int stringId = InsertSharedStringItem(cellValue);
cell.CellValue = new CellValue(stringId.ToString());
cell.DataType = new EnumValue<CellValues>(CellValues.SharedString);
}
According to the documentation at 18.18.11 ST_CellType:
str (String) Cell containing a formula string.
You will only want to use the CellValues.String when you are inserting a formula in the cell. Here is how the XML should look:
<x:c r="C6" s="1" vm="15" t="str">
<x:f>CUBEVALUE("xlextdat9 Adventure Works",C$5,$A6)</x:f>
<x:v>2838512.355</x:v>
</x:c>
CellValues.InlineString
should only be used if you don't want to store the string in the SharedStringTable
. Then anything you mark as an inlineString
will be treated as rich text. Although note that when you use CellValues.InlineString
that your text must be surounded by a text element and <is>
tag:
<x:c r="B2" t="inlineStr">
<is><t>test string</t></is>
</c>
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