[Qgis-user] field calculator and query: asking help for faster solution!!!

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

Sorry, I still have no idea what your data looks like and what you like to  
achieve.

Cheers
Bernd

Am 15.11.2016, 21:51 Uhr, schrieb Azzurra Lentini  
<azzurralentini at gmail.com>:

>
> Dear all,
> I have an attribute table (associated to a shape file).
>
> One of the field  is a string type field and his name is “DESCRIPTION” ,  
> I need this field as an  INT number.
> The field “description” is formed by 25 different samples and around 350  
> records (so for every sample there are different records with the same  
> >description).
>
> SO I create a new field “descriptionINT” and I would like to fill the  
> field with 25 numbers (1, 2, 3,.... 25) associated to the 25 different  
> sample and 350 >records.
> How I can do?
> Till now, I was first selecting the records related to the first sample  
> and I was giving the number, for example 1 (with field calculator) to  
> all the records >related to the same sample.
> But I am doing this one by one.. that means every time a do a new  
> selection and I give a new number with field calculator.
> Do you know a faster way (query)  to do this ?
> ​thanks A.L. ​
>
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