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-rw-r--r--src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/util/CellReference.java17
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/util/CellReference.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/util/CellReference.java
index c9bea9fd12..3bd7ba9088 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/util/CellReference.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ss/util/CellReference.java
@@ -170,22 +170,19 @@ public class CellReference {
* @return zero based column index
*/
public static int convertColStringToIndex(String ref) {
-
- int pos = 0;
int retval=0;
- for (int k = ref.length()-1; k >= 0; k--) {
- char thechar = ref.charAt(k);
+ char[] refs = ref.toUpperCase().toCharArray();
+ for (int k=0; k<refs.length; k++) {
+ char thechar = refs[k];
if (thechar == ABSOLUTE_REFERENCE_MARKER) {
if (k != 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Bad col ref format '" + ref + "'");
}
- break;
+ continue;
}
- // Character.getNumericValue() returns the values
- // 10-35 for the letter A-Z
- int shift = (int)Math.pow(26, pos);
- retval += (Character.getNumericValue(thechar)-9) * shift;
- pos++;
+
+ // Character is uppercase letter, find relative value to A
+ retval = (retval * 26) + (thechar - 'A' + 1);
}
return retval-1;
}