ITextStream.Column Property

[José Roca]

The following example illustrates the use of the Column property.

JScript

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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);
}


VBScript

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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


PowerBASIC

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FUNCTION GetColumn () AS LONG

   LOCAL fso AS IFileSystem
   LOCAL f AS ITextStream
   LOCAL m AS STRING

   fso = NEWCOM ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   f = fso.OpenTextFile(UCODE$("c:\testfile.txt"), %IOMode_ForWriting, %VARIANT_TRUE)
   f.Write UCODE$("Hello world!" )
   f.Close
   f = fso.OpenTextFile(UCODE$("c:\testfile.txt"), %IOMode_ForReading)
   m = f.ReadLine
   FUNCTION = f.Column
   f.Close

END FUNCTION