Column Property

Description

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

Syntax

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);
}