The following example illustrates the use of the
Column property.
JScript
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
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
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