[Qgis-developer] Saving to a DBF

Bob and Deb bobdebm at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 13:09:39 PST 2013


It might be more then you asked for, but how about Spatialite as an
intermediate format?


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Régis Haubourg <
regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr> wrote:

> Hi, csv huge drawback is that it can't deal with fields with carriage
> return
> inside..  I agree, dbf is the only, but very old, database typed file
> format, with indexes support. sqlite is a great alternative, but it is not
> a
> import - export format known in spreadsheet or other desktop tool dealing
> with datas.
>
> but, great drawback, it requires very short field names (10 chars) and 9
> char on file name (for the most restrictive tools.. like the old xbase in
> Office 2010 tools..
> Régis
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