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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Hi,<br /><br />While editing a shapefile I entered a number of field names that were 12 characters long, with the distinguishing characters being in the last two characters (e.g. AAAAAAAAA_1, AAAAAAAAAA_2). </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">xBase Tables and tables associated with shapefiles should not have fieldnames >10 characters long. Instead of baulking at this and flagging to me that the names were identical once trimmed to 10 characters the program just trimmed the names to 10 characters and saved the file.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">This is a big problem that should be easily captured.<br /></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Cheers Simon</p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Simon Cropper <br />Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd<br />PO Box 160, Sunshine, Victoria 3020.<br />P: 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437.<br /><a href="mailto:scropper@botanicusaustralia.com.au"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">mailto: scropper@botanicusaustralia.com.au</span></a> <br /><a href="http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">web: www.botanicusaustralia.com.au</span></a> <br /></p></body></html>