(And I am pretty sure I saw 13 on some other page .. what a mess)
Anyhow, I have stopped working on the diff for v.in.ascii for now as my
impression was that most people on this list would prefer to see the
table-only-creation option added to another module instead.
>>> Does anyone know what the restrictions on DBF field
>>> names are? Length?
>
>> 8 chars
>
> Add 2:
> "DBF column names are limited to 10 characters (DBF API definition)"
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there have been a number of variants over the years, so I wouldn't be
surprised if somewhere someone at sometime wrote in a 12 char field
length, but if that even exists I don't think it is very common or worth
worrying about.
Anyhow, I have stopped working on the diff for v.in.ascii for now as my
impression was that most people on this list would prefer to see the
table-only-creation option added to another module instead.
note Markus has added a db.in.ogr module
(I don't think that includes v.in.ascii's automatic column scanning, but
that scanning code still needs a bit of work)