There is that kind of odd "number-system" or number formatting that Excel uses for the columns. I believe this is also used for "numbering" appendices in books. At the first glance you will think it's just a 26-based number system, but it's not, as this system has no 0 digit, which means you will miserably fail with the good-old division-and-modulo-with-the-base trick. Anyway, here it is, methods for converting int to Latin number, without upper limit. Watch out, in this implementation A is 1, not 0. Public Domain:
/** * Converts a number to upper-case Latin (alpha) number, like * A, B, C, and so on, then Z, AA, AB, etc. No upper limit. */ public static String toUpperLatinNumber(int n) { return toLatinNumber(n, 'A'); } /** * Converts a number to lower-case Latin (alpha) number, like * a, b, c, and so on, then z, aa, ab, etc. No upper limit. */ public static String toLowerLatinNumber(int n) { return toLatinNumber(n, 'a'); } private static String toLatinNumber(final int n, char oneDigit) { if (n < 1) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't convert 0 or negative " + "numbers to latin-number: " + n); } // First find out how many "digits" will we need. We start from A, then // try AA, then AAA, etc. (Note that the smallest digit is "A", which is // 1, not 0. Hence this isn't like a usual 26-based number-system): int reached = 1; int weight = 1; while (true) { int nextWeight = weight * 26; int nextReached = reached + nextWeight; if (nextReached <= n) { // So we will have one more digit weight = nextWeight; reached = nextReached; } else { // No more digits break; } } // Increase the digits of the place values until we get as close // to n as possible (but don't step over it). StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); while (weight != 0) { // digitIncrease: how many we increase the digit which is already 1 final int digitIncrease = (n - reached) / weight; sb.append((char) (oneDigit + digitIncrease)); reached += digitIncrease * weight; weight /= 26; } return sb.toString(); }
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