[gdal-dev] field name in ESRI file

[Eric Wolf]

ESRI Shapefiles use the ancient DBF format for attribute data. DBFs
restricts the length of field names. When I have to work with Shapefiles, I
try to stick to 8-character field names and avoid spaces and special
characters.

-Eric

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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Oz Nahum <nahumoz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello GDAL Devs,
>
> I encoutered a small problem, where I don't understand why field names in
> ESRI Shape files created by gdal, are truncated.
> Here is a code snippet:
>
>     field_LUC = ogr.FieldDefn()
>     field_LUC.SetName('LAND USE CODE')
>     field_LUC.SetType(ogr.OFTInteger)
>     field_LUC.SetWidth(15)
>     dst_layer.CreateField(field_LUC)
>
>
> Yet, when I examine the output file the attribute table contains  a field
> called "LAND USE C",
> so 3 characters are missing.
>
> Would be happy to know what am I doing wrong. Thank you very much,
>
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