[Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.10.1 Pisa - Read CSV file problem

[Frank Sokolic]

Hi Zoltan,

I wonder if this is a DBF format restriction. If I remember correctly 
DBF field names have to start with a letter followed by any combination 
of letters and numbers up to the maximum field name length.

Frank.

On 04/08/2015 12:26, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> Hi,
> Using the above version on Win 7 64 bit, I read a CSV file (as
> attributes only) stipulating that "first record has field names"
> Record 1 is as follows:
> "SALnum","SALnam","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10+"
>
> When I open the attribute table, I see that fields 1 & 2 have names
> SALnum and SALnam, but the rest are called 'Field_3', 'Field_4' and so on.
>
> When I edit record 1 of this CSV file to look like:
> "SALnum","SALnam","1p","2p","3p","4p","5p","6p","7p","8p","9p","10+p"
>
> The I get the correct field names (albeit 1p instead of just "1")
>
> Is this an error, or is there some reason further down the line, that
> attribute tables cannot have 'numeric' field names?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Zoltan
>
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