I have a shapefile which displays fine in ArcMap. When I view the attribute table I get the following error. However the same shapefile loads fine and can view its attribute table to in QGIS. Any ideas ??
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asked Feb 17, 2012 at 12:17
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When I have had this it has usually been due to an invalid field name. The biggest culprit is a comma in the field name. QGIS is not bothered by this but ESRI is. So check your attribute table field names for anything dodgy. Spaces seem to be OK but I try to avoid them as well.
answered Feb 17, 2012 at 12:57
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Thanks .Yes I did figure out that this error comes when the shapefile name itself is long and has " _" in it .SNT– SNT2012年02月17日 13:05:36 +00:00Commented Feb 17, 2012 at 13:05
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The web help has a good section on feature class naming at help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//… but I could not quickly locate an equivalent page describing the rules for shapefile naming2012年02月17日 22:29:15 +00:00Commented Feb 17, 2012 at 22:29