Hi,
In my opinion it is quite "special" to name columns with integer numbers. Not what the average GIS user would do. In my own 2-decade GIS career I never had such an issue. I am not against fixing this issue, but I don't think it is a serious issue. We have many more important issues in QGIS. Andreas On 2015-08-06 07:31, Zoltan Szecsei wrote: > Hi Chris, > Thanks for the opinion. > Do I log this as a bug? > > Whilst I am quite happy to write a bash script to parse and alter my 500 CSV > files, I do feel that this is likely a more serious issue, as it will affect, > I assume a lot of, users that load CSV files to join them to their spatial > data. > Maybe the silence on this is because it either goes unnoticed, or there are > many people just doing a work-around. > > Let me know. > > Thanks & regards, > Zoltan > > On 2015/08/05 02:55, Chris Crook wrote: Hi Zoltan > > I think this could be classed as an error! The source code rejects field > names that look like positive numbers (some digits optionally followed by a > period and some more digits). > > I can't recall a reason why it should do this. It could be reasonable to > require field names to be compatible to database attribute names, but I can't > see any need for that within QGIS itself. This can go on a 'to-do' list to > fix... > > Cheers > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Zoltan Szecsei [mailto:zolt...@geograph.co.za] > Sent: Tuesday, 4 August 2015 10:27 p.m. > To: Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: [Qgis-developer] QGIS 2.10.1 Pisa - Read CSV file problem > > Hi, > Using the above version on Win 7 64 bit, I read a CSV file (as attributes > only) > stipulating that "first record has field names" > Record 1 is as follows: > "SALnum","SALnam","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10+" > > When I open the attribute table, I see that fields 1 & 2 have names SALnum > and SALnam, but the rest are called 'Field_3', 'Field_4' and so on. > > When I edit record 1 of this CSV file to look like: > "SALnum","SALnam","1p","2p","3p","4p","5p","6p","7p","8p","9p","10+p" > > The I get the correct field names (albeit 1p instead of just "1") > > Is this an error, or is there some reason further down the line, that > attribute > tables cannot have 'numeric' field names? > > Thanks and regards, > Zoltan > > -- > > =========================================== > Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] > Geograph (Pty) Ltd. > GIS and Photogrammetric Services > > P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. > > Mobile: +27-83-6004028 > Fax: +27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za [1] > =========================================== > > This message contains information, which may be in confidence and may be > subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must > not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. If you have > received this message in error, please notify us immediately (Phone 0800 665 > 463 or i...@linz.govt.nz) and destroy the original message. LINZ accepts no > responsibility for changes to this email, or for any attachments, after its > transmission from LINZ. Thank You. -- =========================================== Zoltan Szecsei PrGISc [PGP0031] Geograph (Pty) Ltd. GIS and Photogrammetric Services P.O. Box 7, Muizenberg 7950, South Africa. Mobile: +27-83-6004028 Fax: +27-86-6115323 www.geograph.co.za [1] =========================================== _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer [2] Links: ------ [1] http://www.geograph.co.za [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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