Excel Column

Generate characters of column indexes for Microsoft Office Excel.
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Updated 13 Feb 2020

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Convert a positive integer into MS Excel column index format, helpful when applying functions like "writematrix". Note that the limits of row and column in MS Excel (2007+) are 1,048,576 and 16,384, respectively.

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Daniel YC Lin (2024). Excel Column (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/74255-excel-column), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2019b
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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.2

add identification to inputs:
(1) double - positive integers, and (2) character - all letters

1.0.1

It also returns the number of column index if inputs were characters.

1.0.0