[#BloombergLP-balxml-Formatter-outputColumn] = xref:BloombergLP.adoc[BloombergLP]::xref:BloombergLP/balxml.adoc[balxml]::xref:BloombergLP/balxml/Formatter.adoc[Formatter]::outputColumn :relfileprefix: ../../../ :mrdocs: Return the current column position at a line where next output starts. This is unreliable if called after free‐lance information is written onto the stream returned by `rawOutputStream` == Synopsis Declared in `<balxml_formatter.h>` [source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"] ---- int outputColumn() const; ---- [.small]#Created with https://www.mrdocs.com[MrDocs]#