[Gdal-dev] delete features in shapefiles

[Frank Warmerdam]

Martin Dobias wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On page http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_shapefile.html I have read following:
> 
> "The OGR shapefile driver supports rewriting existing shapes in a
> shapefile as well as deleting shapes."
> 
> But TestCapability() for shapefile layer doesn't report that deletion
> of features is supported, I also couldn't find it in implementation.
> Is the documentation wrong?

Martin,

Sorry for the much delayed response.  The TestCapability() method was wrong
and I have committed a fix.

Best regard,s
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