Get the Column Index of a Cell in Excel using OpenXML C#

Question

I\'ve been looking around for a while now and cannot seem to find out how to do this. I\'ve got an excel sheet, which I\'m reading using OpenXML. Now the normal thing would

Answer 1

In my scenario I only needed to deal with column names (no cell numbers), and used LINQ, thought it's worth putting here for the reference.

const int AsciiTrim = 'A' - 1; //64
const int LastChar = 'Z' - AsciiTrim; //26

var colIndex = columnName
    .Reverse()
    .Select(ch => ch - AsciiTrim)
    .Select((ch, i) => ch * Math.Pow(LastChar, i))
    .Sum()
    - 1; //make zero-index based

To revert back, and for the full code and test, see this gist.