Getting Column index

[Seema Hanji]

Hi All,
Is it possible to get column index from ResultSetMetaData ? I didn't see any methods for that...
Thanks,
seema

[Roy Ben Ami]

what do u mean the coloumn index?
u mean u supply the name and u get the index number??
it usually works the other way around.
u have all the coloumns and u want to know their names.

[Seema Hanji]

In my code, I need to call metadata.getColumnDisplaySize(i);
This method takes column index, at this point I know column name not the index. So can I pass columnname and get column index from metadata ?

[Bosun Bello]

Not that I am aware of.

[David O'Meara]

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