jxl : Get number of sheets in xls file

Step 1: Initialize workbook.

Workbook  workbook = Workbook.getWorkbook(new File(path));

Step 2: Call getNumberOfSheets() method to get number of sheets in given xsl file.

workbook.getNumberOfSheets();

You can get sample xls sheet here

public class WorkBookNotInitializedException extends RuntimeException{

    WorkBookNotInitializedException(){
        super("work book is not initialized");
    }
}

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import jxl.*;
import jxl.read.biff.BiffException;

public class XSLUtils {

    private Workbook workbook = null;

    public XSLUtils(String path){
        try {
            workbook = Workbook.getWorkbook(new File(path));
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } catch (BiffException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private void checkWorkbookInitialized(){
        if(workbook == null)
            throw new WorkBookNotInitializedException();
    }
    
    public int getNoOfSheets(){
        checkWorkbookInitialized();
        return workbook.getNumberOfSheets();
    }

    public void closeWorkbook(){
        checkWorkbookInitialized();
        workbook.close();
    }
    
}

public class TestUtils {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        XSLUtils util = new XSLUtils("D:\\data.xls");

        System.out.println("Number of sheets in xls file are " + util.getNoOfSheets());
        util.closeWorkbook();
    }
}

Output

Number of sheets in xls file are 3

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