The song in seconds
- O(1) · Trivial
- Free
- Python
- JavaScript
- strings
- operations
Problem
A song's length comes written as text, always with two digits on each side of the colon: "04:05" is four minutes and five seconds.
Write a function that takes that text and returns how many seconds it lasts in total, as a number: "04:05" gives 245 and "00:45" gives 45.
Examples
"04:05" → 245
"00:45" → 45
Whole minutes
"12:00" → 720
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