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Excel Sheet Column Number

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Description

Given a string columnTitle that represents the column title as appears in an Excel sheet, return its corresponding column number.

For example:

A -> 1
B -> 2
C -> 3
...
Z -> 26
AA -> 27
AB -> 28
...

Example 1:

A -> 1
B -> 2
C -> 3
...
Z -> 26
AA -> 27
AB -> 28
...

Example 2:

Input: columnTitle = "A"
Output: 1

Example 3:

Input: columnTitle = "AB"
Output: 28

Example 4:

Input: columnTitle = "ZY"
Output: 701

Solution