[mapserver-dev] RE: MapServer 6.0 Beta 1 - Expression Parser question

[Daniel Morissette]

Hopefully the following should work as well, without the need for quotes 
around attribute references, right?

   TEXT ( [LOCATION]+" "+[OBSERVED]+[UNITS] +"$"+[OBSTIME] )


On 11-03-10 06:21 PM, Lime, Steve D (DNR) wrote:
> This is expected. It's in the RFC and migration guide. We had to treat these
> like true expressions so various formatting functions could be introduced.
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH [mailto:michael.smith at usace.army.mil]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:18 PM
> To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org; Lime, Steve D (DNR)
> Subject: MapServer 6.0 Beta 1 - Expression Parser question
>
> Steve,
>
> To get the expression parser to label my layers as pre 6.0, I¹ve had to
> change my TEXT statement from
>
> TEXT ( [LOCATION] [OBSERVED] [UNITS]$[OBSTIME] )
>
> to
>
> TEXT ( "[LOCATION]"+" "+"[OBSERVED]"+"[UNITS]" +"$"+"[OBSTIME]" )
>
> And put quotes around the string fields. Is this expected behavior or is
> this a bug with the new expression parser?
>
> Mike
>
>


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