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

Easy Java solution -->

public class ColumnName {

public static int colIndex(String col)
{   int index=0;
    int mul=0;
    for(int i=col.length()-1;i>=0;i--)
    {   
        index  += (col.charAt(i)-64) * Math.pow(26, mul);
        mul++;
    }
    return index;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {

    System.out.println(colIndex("AAA"));

}