Title: Alternative syntax for prepend attribute:
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Alternative syntax for prepend attribute:

 *  Resolved [Jen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brightestspark/)
 * (@brightestspark)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-syntax-for-prepend-attribute/)
 * Hi
 * We are currently creating a WooCommerce shop with 4,000 products and 22 global
   attributes. We plan to do daily uploads so are preparing a script to extract 
   the stock data from the main retail POS system and format it for WooCommerce 
   upload via this plugin
 * Is there any way around prepending the attribute fields with ‘attribute:’ as 
   our software language wont allow colons in name fields as that format is reserved
   for physical drive name eg “C:” or “D:”. So when we go to create the table we
   are effectively saying all these fields need to come from a drive named “attribute”
   which obviously doesn’t exist.
 * It will be cumbersome to manually map 23 attributes each day and we’d like to
   avoid this if possible.
 * Is there a way to change the prepend to a hyphen? eg. attribute-pa_color
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce-csvimport/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce-csvimport/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Jen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brightestspark/)
 * (@brightestspark)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alternative-syntax-for-prepend-attribute/#post-3371807)

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