Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition 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 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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