reading Excel Open XML is ignoring blank cells

Question

I am using the accepted solution here to convert an excel sheet into a datatable. This works fine if I have \"perfect\" data but if I have a blank cell in the middle of my

Answer 1

The letter code is a base 26 encoding so this should work to convert it into an offset.

// Converts letter code (i.e. AA) to an offset
public int offset( string code)
{
    var offset = 0;
    var byte_array = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes( code ).Reverse().ToArray();
    for( var i = 0; i < byte_array.Length; i++ )
    {
        offset += (byte_array[i] - 65 + 1) * Convert.ToInt32(Math.Pow(26.0, Convert.ToDouble(i)));
    }
    return offset - 1;
}