[Qgis-user] Importing CSV files

[Werner Macho]

Find attached the working csv and csvt file - And remember - this csv is
now NOT to be loaded with delimited text but rather as a "normal" vector
layer.

regards
Werner

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Phillip Money <phillip.money at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Richard and Werner.
>
> I left the csvt file as "String", "Integer", "Integer", "Integer". I
> converted the percentages to numbers. It still didn't work. At Richard's
> suggestion, I converted the csv file to a text file and it worked. I can't
> understand why it didn't work with a CSV file. I am using QGIS Nodego.
> Thanks for your help, but I am still stumped about the csv file.
>
> Phillip
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: werner.macho at gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:17:35 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Importing CSV files
> To: richard.mcdonnell at opw.ie
> CC: phillip.money at hotmail.com; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> Surely QGIS is able to import it - but you forgot about that sentence in
> his first post:
> "I have set up a csvt file with "String", "Integer", "Integer", "Integer" "
>
> Using a csvt is sometimes very handy - but as already written "86%" is
> unfortunately no integer ;)
>
> regards
> Werner
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Richard McDonnell <
> richard.mcdonnell at opw.ie> wrote:
>
> Phillip,
> I have copied out what you sent, paste it into notepad and saved it as a
> txt file. I then imported it into QGIS using Add delimited Text Layer,
> making sure to select *Custom delimiters*, and selecting* Semicolon*.
> One other thing I done was select
> *No geometry. *This has worked perfectly see attribute table below
>
>
>
> I hope the above settings work, I am running QGIS 2.14 by the way,
> shouldn't make a difference though.
> Regards,
>
> Richard.
>
> On 15/07/2016 13:03, Phillip Money wrote:
>
> Richard,
>
> I am using Add delimited Text Layer.
>
> Here is a snippet of the data.
>
> LGA_NAME;Non-Indigenous;Aboriginal;Torres Strait Islander
> Albury (C);93%;2%;0%
> Armidale Dumaresq (A);88%;6%;0%
> Ashfield (A);93%;1%;0%
> Auburn (C);93%;1%;0%
> Ballina (A);93%;3%;0%
> Balranald (A);87%;6%;0%
> Bankstown (C);94%;1%;0%
> Bathurst Regional (A);91%;4%;0%
>
> I had the data separated by commas, but changed it to semi-colons. Neither
> worked. I also change the date to numerical format as in .93. That didn't
> work either.
>
> On 15 July 2016 at 22:00, Richard McDonnell <richard.mcdonnell at opw.ie>
> wrote:
>
> Phillip,
> Can you supply a sample of the data, also what version are you running of
> QGIS.
> The other thing is are you using *Add delimited Text Layer* or are you
> just loading the CSV directly?
> Regards,
>
> Richard.
>
>
> On 15/07/2016 12:29, Phillip Money wrote:
>
> I have a CSV file with four columns. The first column is text, and the
> succeeding columns are percentages. I have set up a csvt file with
> "String", "Integer", "Integer", "Integer" When I import the file into QGIS
> as a delimited text layer, QGIS strips out all the percentages. They come
> in as null values. I have tried a lot of things, but can't get past this.
>
>
> For example, I have tried converting the percentages to numbers and
> bringing them in that way; same thing happens.
>
>
> I would appreciate any help.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Phillip Money
>
>
>
>
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