[GRASS-user] GRASS, import shapefiles with v.in.ogr, duplicate column name problem

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Hi list,
I just encountered a problem, when trying to import a shapefile with a big
dbf-table that contains a duplicate field name.
I could not import this file into GRASS because of this and need to modify the
dbf-table first.
However, as the table is that large, I cannot open it in OpenOffice (too many
rows. The file is imported only partially) - any ideas for this issue?

Best regards,
Wolfgang

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On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 13:23 +0200, wqual wrote:

Hi list,
I just encountered a problem, when trying to import a shapefile with a big
dbf-table that contains a duplicate field name.
I could not import this file into GRASS because of this and need to modify the
dbf-table first.
However, as the table is that large, I cannot open it in OpenOffice (too many
rows. The file is imported only partially) - any ideas for this issue?

Use the 'cnames' option in v.in.ogr to manually specify column names.

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