[GRASS5] Re: [bug #4250] (grass) v.out.ogr: CHAR columns are trimmed to 80 chars when writing shp

[Maciek Sieczka]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 16:10:23 +1200
Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > $ dbview -e /home/grassdata/caves_utm33/wlasnosc2/dbf/test.dbf
> > 
> > Field Name      Type    Length  Decimal Pos
> > Cat               N        11       0
> ...
> > Owner cod         N        11       0
> > Owner nam         C       249       0
> > Owner nmb         N        11       0
> > Owner loc         C        80       0
> 
> 
> are those field names "Owner nam" or "Owner_nam"?

That's how dbview displays; in OOCalc2 they are "OWNER_COD", OWNER_NAM"
etc. respectively.

>  I didn't think dbf fields could have spaces; if two words maybe it
> is just reading the first and getting confused as there are multiple
> "Owner"s? Or is dbview just translating the names?

Columns name are OK, no doubt bout it.

> did you try sqlite instead of dbf?

No.

> (doubt any improvement, but maybe worth a try)

Then I'll take my time ;).

Maciek

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