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Excel Sheet Column Number

Problem

Given a string columnTitle that represents the column title as appear in an Excel sheet, return its corresponding column number.

For example:

A -> 1
B -> 2
C -> 3
...
Z -> 26
AA -> 27
AB -> 28 
...

 

Example 1:

Input: columnTitle = "A"
Output: 1

Example 2:

Input: columnTitle = "AB"
Output: 28

Example 3:

Input: columnTitle = "ZY"
Output: 701

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= columnTitle.length <= 7
  • columnTitle consists only of uppercase English letters.
  • columnTitle is in the range ["A", "FXSHRXW"].

Solution

/**
* @param {string} s
* @return {number}
*/
var titleToNumber = function(s) {
let val = 0;
let digit = s.length - 1;
for (let c of s) {
val += (c.charCodeAt(0) - 64) * 26 ** digit;
digit--;
}
return val;
};

Convert base 26 value to base 10 value.