[GRASS-user] v.in.dxf modifies field values in "layer" column

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Benjamin Ducke
<benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a DXF file that has layers called
>
> 1516,
> 1517,
> 1518,
> 2003,
> ...
>
> After importing it using v.in.dxf, I get
> a column "layer" with values:
>
> x516,
> x517,
> x518,
> x003,
> ...
>
> Apparently, the leading digit has been replaced
> by "x". But why? Is this a bug or a feature?

Feature.

The naming convention for vector maps require that map names start with a
character, not a number (map name scheme: [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*).

Markus