RE: Generating Column Numbers on Two Variables

Stephens, Donald Sat, 03 Dec 2005 12:54:35 -0800

If you treat the $num as rows and the $letter as columns you can get a table like:

A B C

_________

1 | 1 2 3

2 | 4 5 6

3 | 7 8 9

4 | 10 11 12

5 | 13 14 15

6 | 16 17 18

7 | 19 20 21

But because your letter ( or column ) count is not the same per row you really need this:

A B C

_________

1 | 1 2 3

2 | 3 4 5

3 | 5 6 7

4 | 7 8 9

5 | 9 10 11

6 | 12 13 14

7 | 15 16 17

So the trick is for each row ( or num for you ) calculate the MAX number ( i.e. 6,C = 14 ) and offset based on the column ( i.e. column B is 1 less then C, so subtract one giving 6,B = 13 ). Then one more thing is to treat a special case for the row ( or num for you ) when row is 6 or higher.

here is pseudo code:

$maxLetter = "C"; # maximum number of columns you need ideally

if ( $num > 5 ) {

$maxRowValue = $num * ( Asc( $maxLetter ) - 64 ) - 4;

} else {

$maxRowValue = $num * ( Asc( $maxLetter ) - 64 ) - ( num - 1 );

}

$result = $maxRowValue - ( Asc( $maxLetter ) - Asc( $maxLetter ) );

*Because I used 64, please make sure that your letter ( $maxLetter ) is capital for the offest to work.

Is this cleaner, only 7 lines :-)

Hope this helps. Also it may be easier if you visualize how Excel turns "A" into 1 and "AA" into 27. Thanks.

Donald Stephens

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Subject: Generating Column Numbers on Two Variables

Gurus,

I've fiddled with this table and so far a reasonable, or at least pretty, solution's evaded me. Given the values of the first two columns as inputs, I need the column number specified in the third as my output. Note that there's an oddball value for $letter in row number 11--this is what's throwing me the curve. I've got a lumpy looking chunk of code that does it, but I'd prefer something cleaner... Any ideas?

$num $letter $col
1 A 1
1 B 2
2 A 3
2 B 4
3 A 5
3 B 6
4 A 7
4 B 8
5 A 9
5 B 10
5 C 11
6 A 12
6 B 13

My lumpy code:

if (($num < 6) && ($letter ne 'C')) {
$x = ($letter eq 'B' ? 0 : 1;
$col = ($num * 2) - $x;
}
elsif ($num == 5) {
$col = 11;
}
else {
$x = ($letter eq 'B') ? 1 : 0;
$col = 12 + $x;
}

Can anyone suggest a prettier alternative?

Thanks,

Deane





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