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Column Property

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change]

Read-only property that returns the column number of the current character position in a TextStream file.

object.Column

The object is always the name of a TextStream object.

Remarks

After a newline character has been written, but before any other character is written, Column is equal to 1.

The following examples illustrates the use of the Column property:

function GetColumn()
{
   var fso, f, m;
   var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2;
   fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
   f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForWriting, true);
   f.Write("Hello World!");
   f.Close();
   f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForReading);
   m = f.ReadLine();
   return(f.Column);
}

See Also

Line Property
Applies To: TextStream Object