Microsoft® JScript™ Column Property | Language 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 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);
> >     }

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