Excel Sheet Column Number🏍

Question

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"].

Java Solution

Time Complexity for the below solution is O(n), looping through the whole string only once

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