Thanks micha! On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Micha Silver <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/06/2010 07:15, maning sambale wrote: >> >> I know this is easy in GRASS and postgis data. The thing is, I want >> to do this in a shapefile using the fielad calculator. >> >> Basically, >> if columnA = "Some string" , assign "another string" to columnB. >> >> >> Any ideas? >> > > In two steps: First select the rows with ColumnA="Some String". Then using > the field calculation, tick the ckeckbox "Only update selected " then enter > 'another string' (single quotes) in the calculator expression window. > > -- > Micha >
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