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I have 3 contour shapefiles with 25m, 50m and 100m equidistance. Now I want to delete in the 25m-shp-file every **50m and **00m contour and in the 50m-shp-file every **00 contour. How can I show them using the field calculator of qgis?

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If you have a contour value field, it should be possible to select **50m and **00m contours for later deletion using the following query with the modulo operator:

value % 50 = 0
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I might be wrong, but I think for this to work the contour data has to be in a database (Spatialite preferred, in my case). Unless something has changed recently. N. – nhopton Jan 29 at 22:11
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No this will work on any layer. – Nathan W Jan 29 at 23:31
Is this a new feature? – nhopton Jan 30 at 8:34
I'm not sure when the modulo operator was introduced @nhopton. But I think it has been around for a few versions already. – underdark♦ Jan 30 at 11:17
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The simplest method is to simply create a new field based on the modulo operator, %, of the contour value.

A more complex way would be to select the 25 layer, and then select by location all the contours of the 50 layer that overlap the selection.

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