[GRASS-user] v.in.ogr fails on dbf with long column names

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2008/1/11, Craig Leat <Craig at pid.co.za>:

> I have a shapefile and attributes in a dbf file. The dbf has two columns
> where the first ten characters of the column names are identical. The dbf
> driver appears to only consider the first ten letters of the name and so
> v.in.ogr fails reporting that two columns have the same name. Is there a way
> to only import selected columns? I could also delete a column before
> importing, but I am lacking some basic DBase know how so any pointers will
> be greatly appreciated.

from v.in.ogr:

cnames   List of column names to be used instead of original names,
first is used for category column

v.in.ogr cnames=cat,col1,col2,...

could help you?

Martin
>
> BTW the dbf is too big (94,000 rows) to load into OpenOffice Calc.
>
> Regards
>
> Craig
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