<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It started life as an ascii file I created in Barebone Textwrangler. I imported it into GRASS using v.in.ascii to create point vectors, hence the extra code. I just need a way to clean up the unnecessary code to create labels for my maps I intend to put in my dissertation.<div><br></div><div>Kurt<br><div><div>On May 13, 2009, at 3:17 AM, <a href="mailto:qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Kurt Springs wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I am trying to label certain sites. I originally used ascii files to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">put the sites into GRASS. However, this leaves some ascii codes in the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">labels in Qgis.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">For example, the label comes out: #1 %51 @"Cat. 51". All I need is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cat. 51 to appear on the map. This is in column str_1. The "toggle<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">editing mode" button is grayed out. How can I edit this column?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for any help.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kurt<br></blockquote><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0D0AFB">Is this a GRASS layer? What backend did you use for the attribute table?<br>If it's dbf, just open the dbf in excel or openoffice calc edit and save<br>back to dbf. The files should be in your mapset directory under a dbf<br>folder. If you used a database backend the answer will vary by database.<br><br>Alex</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>