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Md Ariful Haque @mah-shamim

Sum Of Digits After String Conversion And Transformation

Convert string s to integer by replacing each letter with its position in alphabet, then sum digits k times.

1945. Sum of Digits of String After Convert
Difficulty: Easy
Topics: String, Simulation
You are given a string s consisting of lowercase English letters, and an integer k.
First, convert s into an integer by replacing each letter with its position in the alphabet (i.e., replace 'a' with 1, 'b' with 2, ..., 'z' with 26). Then, transform the integer by replacing it with the sum of its digits. Repeat the transform operation k times in total.
For example, if s = "zbax" and k = 2, then the resulting integer would be 8 by the following operations:

Convert: "zbax" ➝ "(26)(2)(1)(24)" ➝ "262124" ➝ 262...