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Return the current column number within the input stream&period; The current column number is the number of characters since the last newline was read by the reader plus one, i&period;e&period;, the first column of each line is column number one&period; Return 0 if not available&period; Note that a derived&hyphen;class implementation is not required to count columns and may just return 0&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balxml&lowbar;minireader&period;h&gt;`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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virtual
int
getColumnNumber() const override;
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