Strange Problem with dbf Files

Carolin Latze carolin.latze at UNIFR.CH
Fri Nov 23 01:46:00 PST 2007


Hi again,

sorry, I solved it... the new mapserver cannot handle strings of 512
bytes... Using shorter strings solved it...

Thanks anyway
Carolin



Carolin Latze wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using Mapserver with Cartoweb (MS 4) and create shp, shx and dbf
> Files using the shapelib C library (1.2.10). I encounter a strange
> problem when using string attributes. I write them using
> DBFWriteStringAttribute and see them using every available DBF viewer
> (dbfdump ...). But if I try to read them out using ogrinfo, I only see
> (null) values... I have really no idea, what's happening.... Does
> anybody have an idea?
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Carolin
>
>   

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