[GRASS-dev] table only creation in v.in.ascii

Maciej Sieczka tutey at o2.pl
Thu Mar 27 17:01:55 EDT 2008


Moritz Lennert pisze:
> On 11/01/08 09:51, Benjamin Ducke wrote:

>> Does anyone know what the restrictions on DBF field
>> names are? Length? 

> 8 chars

Add 2:

"DBF column names are limited to 10 characters (DBF API definition)" [1]

>> Special characters?

> You should probably avoid anything non-ascii.

More hints in [1].

See also [2].

[1]http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/manuals/html63_user/sql.html
[2]http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/manuals/html63_user/grass-dbf.html

Maciek


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