C Exercises: Get the column number that corresponds to a column title as appear in an Excel sheet
C Programming Mathematics: Exercise-9 with Solution
Write a C program to get the column number (integer value) that corresponds to a column title as it appears in an Excel sheet.
For example:
A -> 1
B -> 2
C -> 3
...
Z -> 26
AA -> 27
AB -> 28
...
Example:
Input:
col_title1[ ] ="C"
col_title2[ ] ="AC"
col_title3[ ] ="ZY"
Output:
Corresponding number: 3
Corresponding number: 29
Corresponding number: 701
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Sample Solution:
C Code:
#include <stdio.h>
int excel_title_to_Number(char* s) {
int k = 0;
while (s && *s) {
k = k * 26 + (*s) - 'A' + 1;
s ++;
}
return k;
}
int main(void)
{
char col_title1[ ] ="C";
printf("\nExcel column title: = %s", col_title1);
printf("\nCorresponding number: %d ",excel_title_to_Number(col_title1));
char col_title2[ ] ="AC";
printf("\n\nExcel column title: = %s", col_title2);
printf("\nCorresponding number: %d ",excel_title_to_Number(col_title2));
char col_title3[ ] ="ZY";
printf("\n\nExcel column title: = %s", col_title3);
printf("\nCorresponding number: %d ",excel_title_to_Number(col_title3));
return 0;
}
Sample Output:
Excel column title: = C Corresponding number: 3 Excel column title: = AC Corresponding number: 29 Excel column title: = ZY Corresponding number: 701
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