Column Property (FileSystemObject) 

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

object.Column

Remarks

The object is always the name of a TextStream object.

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);

}

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

Applies To:

TextStream Object

See Also

Reference

Line Property (FileSystemObject)