Which column contains all details of the permissions of a file when you issue the ls -l command?

root@server [~]# ls -l
....
-rw-------  1 root root    37 Dec 31  2009 .my.cnf
-rw-------  1 root root    737 Aug 18 21:20 .mysql_history
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    264 Aug 18 16:51 .pearrc
....