[Mapserver-users] Expression parser error

[Jan Hartmann]

Agneta,

You have to put the EXPRESSION between quotes, whenever it contains spaces.

EXPRESSION  "([GEO]) < 120)"

Generally it is safer to put everything after a keyword between quotes.


Jan


Agneta Schick wrote:
> Dear mapserver-users,
> 
> I have no idea where to search for this error; I hope someone can point me
> in the right direction:
> 
> Situation: coloring shapes
> Failure: "msyyparse(): Expression parser error. parse error" 
>          (twice for each shape?!?!)
> 
> dbfinfo myshape.dbf: 
>     Info for data/tiles/geol/gk01_shape.dbf
> 	5 Columns,  1052 Records in file
>            AREA           float  (20,5)
>       PERIMETER           float  (20,5)
>       GK01_NEU_         integer  (11,0)
>      GK01_NEU_I         integer  (11,0)
>             GEO         integer  (4,0)
> 
> mymap.map: ---this works ok----
> ...
>  LAYER
>   NAME 'geology'
>   DATA gk01_shape
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
> ...
>   CLASSITEM "GEO"
>   CLASS
>       EXPRESSION /./
>       OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0 
>       COLOR 255 255 255
>   END
>  END
> ...         
>             
> but I get the above error message when I add
>     CLASS
>        EXPRESSION  ([GEO]) < 120)      # 0 <= [GEO] <= 657
>        COLOR 0 142 224
>     END
> 
> I'm running MapServer3.6.3, Perl MapScript on Sun Solaris8 
> (with  gd-1.8.4, gdal-1.1.8, proj-4.4.5, shapelib-1.2.9) 
> 
> Thanks for any hints.
> 
> Agneta Schick
> 
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