[GRASSLIST:10136] Re: Display labels as integer only

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Thursday 02 February 2006 04:44 pm, Michael Peterman wrote:
> I have a vector points file and I have labels for each point derived
> from a floating-point attribute.  Is it possible to display the labels
> as integer only?  For instance I have labels like 253.230000 and all I
> want is 253.  Or is there a way to convert the attribute to integer?
>
> Thanks
> --Mike

echo "alter table xxx add column new_label int" | db.execute
echo "update table set new_label = old_label" | db.execute

i know that this works with MySQL as an attribute storage DB, not sure about 
the DBF method- but is is worth a try!

Cheers,

-- 
Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341