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# Column

Extracts all lines below the anchor line on the current page if:

* The anchor line's left and right boundaries ("x extent") contain the target lines' x extent, or vice versa.\
  Or:
* The anchor line and target lines overlap by at least 50% of the narrower line's x extent.

[**Parameters**](/senseml-reference/methods/column#parameters)\
[**Examples**](/senseml-reference/methods/column#examples)

## Parameters

| key               | values                      | description                                                                                                         |
| ----------------- | --------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| id (**required**) | column                      |                                                                                                                     |
| tiebreaker        | tiebreaker                  | For information about this global parameter, see [Method](/senseml-reference/field-query-object/method#parameters). |
| includeAnchor     | true, false. default: false | Includes the anchor line in the method output                                                                       |

## Examples

The following example shows that:

* By default, Sensible returns the entire column as a joined string.
* Specifying a tiebreaker returns single element in the column.

**Config**

```JSON JSON 
{
  "fields": [
    {
      "id": "example_column",
      "anchor": "may 2020",
      "type": "string",
      "method": {
        "id": "column"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "example_column_2",
      "anchor": "may 2020",
      "type":"number",
      "method": {
        "id": "column",
        "tiebreaker": ">"
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

**Example document**\
The following image shows the example document used with this example config:

![Click to enlarge](https://mintlify.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/sensible/assets/v0/images/screenshots/column.png)

| Example document | [Download link](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sensible-hq/sensible-docs/main/readme-sync/assets/v0/pdfs/row%5Fcolumn.pdf) |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

**Output**

```JSON JSON 
{
  "example_column": {
    "type": "string",
    "value": "1 3 2 4 5"
  },
  "example_column_2": {
    "source": "5",
    "value": 5,
    "type": "number"
  }
}
`
```