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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">See
<a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/floatingpoint.html">http://www.regular-expressions.info/floatingpoint.html</a> for some good examples.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Prabu Raja<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 15, 2011 4:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] Problem with Variable Substitution for EXPRESSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I need to compare one attribute from database table in "EXPRESSION" (under "LAYER") with six different values passed as Variable Substitution for coloring the layer.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I did added validation for those variables in the map file, but for some reason I am getting the below error.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>msEvalRegex(): Regular expression error. String failed expression test.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could anyone help me with where I am wrong? Below is the map file content for this layer. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All the six variables would be numbers (may be a decimal number), Is my regular expression correct? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">WEB<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> VALIDATION<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> value_one "^[\d+(\.\d)]*$"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> value_two "^[\d+(\.\d)]*$"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> value_three "[^\d+(\.\d)]*$"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> value_four "[^\d+(\.\d)]*$"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> value_five "[^\d+(\.\d)]*$"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> value_six "[^\d+(\.\d)]*$"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> END<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">END<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all">
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">LAYER <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> NAME "state" <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> TYPE polygon<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> STATUS ON <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CONNECTION "user=postgres password=****** dbname=shpdb host=localhost port=5432"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> DATA "the_geom FROM (SELECT gid, the_geom, totpop1 FROM state_shape) AS SUBQUERY using unique gid"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> PROCESSING "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CLASSITEM "totpop1"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> OPACITY 100<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CLASS <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> EXPRESSION ([TOTPOP1] >= %value_one% AND [TOTPOP1] < %value_two%)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CLASS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> EXPRESSION ([TOTPOP1] >= %value_two% AND [TOTPOP1] < %value_three%)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CLASS <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> EXPRESSION ([TOTPOP1] >= %value_three% AND [TOTPOP1] < %value_four%)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">COLOR 254 247 46 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> EXPRESSION ([TOTPOP1] >= %value_four% AND [TOTPOP1] < %value_five%)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> CLASS <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> EXPRESSION ([TOTPOP1] >= %value_five% AND [TOTPOP1] <= %value_six%)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">END<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">-- <br>
Regards,<br>
Prabu Raja<o:p></o:p></p>
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