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

[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

No, it doesn't. 

No labels with 
TEXT ([LOCATION]+" "+[OBSERVED]+[UNITS]+"$"+[OBSTIME])


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


Mike


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Michael Smith
Remote Sensing/GIS Center
US Army Corps of Engineers



On 3/10/11 11:17 PM, "Daniel Morissette" <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>