[Qgis-developer] problem with 'toreal' in field calculator

[Matteo Ghetta]

Hi Junior,
thanks, get it. So numeric conversion are sinful only between numeric
fields right?

Cheers

Matteo

2015-03-10 18:25 GMT+01:00 Junior Delaz <delazj at gmail.com>:

> hi,
>
> If your field is recognized by QGIS as a string one, trying to overwrite
> its values type will fail as they are intended to be string in THIS field.
> This is why when you create a new numeric field and make conversion, it's
> ok (this new field expect numeric values, so it'll recognize your
> conversion).
>
> 2015-03-10 18:08 GMT+01:00 Matteo Ghetta <matteo.ghetta at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have a filed made up by numeric values but recognized as text (should
>> be a WFS issue and not a QGIS problem).
>> I've used the 'toreal' function of the field calculator in order to
>> update the field but nothing changed (numbers are still read as text).
>> Strange is that if I create a new field using the 'toreal' function,
>> values are correctly read as numbers and not as text.
>>
>> Am I missing something or can be a bug?
>>
>> BTW: debian testing and QGIS 2.8.1
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matteo
>>
>>
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