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LeetCode 171, Easy. Topics: Math, String. View on LeetCode. Generate this problem as a practice environment: tested reference solution, 20 parametrized pytest cases, and a playground notebook:

Problem

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

Examples

Constraints

  • 1 <= columnTitle.length <= 7
  • columnTitle consists only of uppercase English letters.
  • columnTitle is in the range [“A”, “FXSHRXW”].

Solution

Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:

Complexity

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Last modified on September 7, 2026