Column Property

Visual Basic Scripting

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Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition Column Property  Scripting Run-Time Reference 
Version 2 

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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 example illustrates use of the Column property:

Function GetColumn
  Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
  Dim fso, f, m
  Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForWriting, True)
  f.Write "Hello world!" 
  f.Close
  Set f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\testfile.txt", ForReading)
  m =  f.ReadLine
  GetColumn = f.Column
End Function

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