Programming Riddle: How might you translate an Excel column name to a number?

Question

I was recently asked in a job interview to resolve a programming puzzle that I thought it would be interesting to share. It\'s about translating Excel column letters to actu

Answer 1

Another Delphi one:

function ExcelColumnNumberToLetter(col: Integer): string;
begin
  if (col <= 26) then begin
    Result := Chr(col + 64);
  end
  else begin
    col := col-1;
    Result := ExcelColumnNumberToLetter(col div 26) + ExcelColumnNumberToLetter((col mod 26) + 1);
  end;
end;