Filtering: applying numerical operators to 'string' fields

Created by Jordan Gilbert, Modified on Tue, 14 May at 11:58 AM by Jordan Gilbert

Most of the time, when applying a filter to a feature class in QGIS, if a numerical value is stored as a string, QGIS is able to deal with that, and treat the value as a number. In some cases, for a currently unknown reason, the filter tool struggles with string values. The video below shows an example of this, and walks through the work around to solve the problem. 



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