[mapguide-internals] Maestro Expression Editor Syntax

[Tysonk]

Thanks Traian, that worked perfectly!


I was trying tirelessly to get this working yesterday, and I could have
sworn I tried single quotes as well, but I guess not.

Thanks again!


Traian Stanev wrote:
> 
> Try:
> 
> Postedname='Third Street'
> 
> 
> Single quotes for strings. Double quotes makes it think that it is a
> column name.
> 
> 
> Traian
> 
> 
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>> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:48 AM
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>> Subject: [mapguide-internals] Maestro Expression Editor Syntax
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm trying to compare String expressions in Maestro's Expression Editor
>> to
>> style a layer in a certain way. I have a attribute "Postedname" for the
>> streets in my map. Now I want to style the streets with a certain name,
>> in a
>> different way. For, example I want all the streets with the name "Third
>> Street" to be in a thicker line than the rest.
>> 
>> My problem is that I'm not sure of the exact syntax to do this. I've
>> tried
>> things such as:
>> 
>> Postedname="Third Street"
>> Postedname Equals "Third Street"
>> Postedname.equals("Third Street")=1
>> Postedname.compareto("Third Street")=1
>> 
>> ....But to no avail. I was wondering if someone could help me out with
>> explaining the correct way to compare/evaluate two Strings in Maestro's
>> Expression Editor.
>> 
>> Thanks!
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