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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Bob,<br>
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I do it this way (you'll need to figure out your specific REGEX though, I have a column (F_CLASS) for classifying the HIGHWAY labels in the data)<br>
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<font face="Courier New">##############################<br>
## Symbols (Shields, etc)<br>
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LAYER<br>
METADATA<br>
"ows_title" "road_sym"<br>
"gml_include_items" "all"<br>
END<br>
NAME 'road_sym'<br>
GROUP 'interstate_poly'<br>
#TILEINDEX 'TILEINDEX'<br>
DATA 'DATA/A10A20A25A30'<br>
STATUS DEFAULT<br>
TYPE ANNOTATION<br>
CLASSITEM 'F_CLASS'<br>
LABELITEM 'HIGHWAY_NU'<br>
TOLERANCE 1000<br>
CLASS<br>
EXPRESSION 'A10' # interstates<br>
STYLE<br>
SYMBOL 'interstate1_wide_back'<br>
SIZE 22<br>
COLOR 255 0 0<br>
END<br>
STYLE<br>
SYMBOL 'interstate1_wide_front'<br>
SIZE 22<br>
COLOR 115 113 206<br>
OUTLINECOLOR 254 254 254<br>
END <br>
LABEL<br>
TYPE TRUETYPE<br>
FONT bluehigh<br>
SIZE 12<br>
COLOR 254 254 254<br>
MINDISTANCE 200<br>
MINFEATURESIZE 10<br>
OFFSET 0 0<br>
PARTIALS FALSE<br>
END<br>
END<br>
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CLASS<br>
EXPRESSION 'A20' # US Highway<br>
STYLE<br>
SYMBOL 'us_highway_back'<br>
SIZE 23<br>
COLOR 254 254 254<br>
END<br>
STYLE<br>
SYMBOL 'us_highway_front'<br>
SIZE 23<br>
COLOR 0 0 0<br>
END<br>
LABEL<br>
TYPE TRUETYPE<br>
FONT bluehigh<br>
SIZE 11<br>
COLOR 0 0 0<br>
MINDISTANCE 250<br>
MINFEATURESIZE 15<br>
OFFSET 0 -1<br>
PARTIALS FALSE<br>
END<br>
END<br>
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CLASS<br>
EXPRESSION 'A25' # MN Highway<br>
STYLE<br>
SYMBOL 'mn_highway_back'<br>
SIZE 23<br>
COLOR 254 254 254<br>
END<br>
STYLE<br>
SYMBOL 'mn_highway_front'<br>
SIZE 23<br>
COLOR 0 0 0<br>
END<br>
LABEL<br>
TYPE TRUETYPE<br>
FONT bluehigh<br>
SIZE 11<br>
COLOR 0 0 0<br>
MINDISTANCE 250<br>
MINFEATURESIZE 15<br>
OFFSET 0 -1<br>
PARTIALS FALSE<br>
END<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF898349"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Lime, Steve D (MNIT) [Steve.Lime@state.mn.us]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 05, 2013 10:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bistrais, Bob; mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mapserver-users] class expression question<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You can use regexes:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">CLASSITEM road_type</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">CLASS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> EXPRESSION /^I-/</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">END</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">or </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">CLASS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> EXPRESSION ([road_type] ~ ^I-)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">END</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Steve</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </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>Bistrais, Bob<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 05, 2013 10:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] class expression question</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Id like to classify road data according to road type. This includes Interstate highways, where the road name attribute starts with I-, such as I-95, I-295, etc. So Id like to create a class where [roadname] like I-%</p>
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</span></span>What is the correct syntax to do this? </p>
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