How does one directly access the value of a column for a folder or file via script?

[Dustydog]

I'm sure this is somewhere obvious, but I'm having trouble finding it; for example: The column with the cached folder size, already-calculated hash value of a file, or a script-calculated column?

[bdeshi]

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  $column_index = 5;  // index of column info you want to get
  $selected_row = report(, 1);  // returns selected item's entire row data as displayed on current list, tab-separated
  text gettoken($selected_row, $column_index, <tab>);  // extract column from tab-separated row data and display

My column layout at this moment was Index, Name, FilteredName ( a custom column), Ext, Size, ... . So I used $column_index = 5 to get the Size cell's text for the selected item.