[Qgis-user] attribute table

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi,

with the field calculator you can clone the column into a new one of
"integer" or "decimal" type.

Cheers

-- Giovanni --


On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 08:35 -0700, Julio Cesar Canales DElgadillo wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Do you know how can I change the type of a field in the attributes
> table of a shp? I'm trying to get the counts of the values of a field
> that is determined as string, thus in the query, qgis doesn't
> recognize the difference between 10 and 14 (because as string both
> have a 1). I thing that changing the field to type integer this
> problem can be solved, but I don't know how to do that.
> If  you now how to do it and can share the tipp, it would be great for
> me.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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