Defined in header <cparse/Cursor.hh>

unsigned long int getColumnNumber() const noexcept;

Returns the one-based column number of the last character consumed via get() or safeGet(). Returns 0 before any character has been read.

Parameters

None.

Return value

The current column number, one-based. 0 if no character has been consumed yet.

Exceptions

noexcept.

Notes

The column counter is set to 1 on the read that starts a new line (the first read after a newline character was consumed). Peeks do not advance it.

Column numbers count bytes, not glyphs. For text containing multi-byte UTF-8 sequences, the reported column is the byte offset within the line, not the visual column. cparse does not attempt any grapheme or codepoint awareness.

See also

• Cursor::getLineNumber — companion line value.
• Cursor::getFilename — file for the position.
• Parser::recordError — reads line/column into ParseError.