ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files 

<!--- Create a new instance of the POI utility. --->
<cfset objPOIUtility = CreateObject(
	"component",
	"POIUtility"
	).Init()
	/>
 
<!--- Get the path to our Excel document. --->
<cfset strFilePath = ExpandPath( "./meals.xls" ) />
 
<!---
	Read the Excel document into an array of Sheet objects.
	Each sheet object will contain the data in the Excel
	sheet as well as some other property-type information.
--->
<cfset arrExcel = objPOIUtility.ReadExcel(
	FilePath = strFilePath,
	HasHeaderRow = true
	) />

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