[mapserver-users] update (regex solution) RE: multiple matches in $classObj->setexpression

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Ooops, that's what I get for not reading all my email before I respond
:), glad you got it working.

-Steve

Puneet Kishor wrote:
> 
> the following works...
> 
> $str = "/foo|bar|baz/";
> 
> I am still curious to know if a more traditional SQL-ish construct would
> work? And why my attempts below are failing.
> 
> TIa,
> 
> pk/
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Puneet Kishor
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 4:41 PM
> > To: MapServer List (E-mail)
> > Subject: multiple matches in $classObj->setexpression
> >
> >
> > with the following in my map file...
> >
> > LAYER
> >   NAME "parcels_highlight"
> >   TYPE polygon
> >   DATA parcel
> >   STATUS off
> >       CLASSITEM "OWNER"
> >   CLASS
> >     OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
> >     COLOR 255 255 0
> >   END
> >   TEMPLATE "parcels.php"
> > END
> >
> > The following works fine...
> >
> > $str = "foo";
> > $classObj->setexpression("\"$str\"");
> > $layerObj->set("status", 1);
> >
> > But I want to do the following, which, needless to say, does
> > not work...
> >
> > $str = "([GIS_KEY] in (\"foo\", \"bar\", \"baz\"))";
> > $classObj->setexpression("\"$str \"");
> > $layerObj->set("status", 1);
> >
> >
> > In fact, I can't even get the following to work...
> >
> > $str = "([GIS_KEY] eq \"foo\")"; OR
> > $str = "([GIS_KEY] == \"foo\")"; OR
> > $str = "([GIS_KEY] eq 'foo')"; etc.
> >
> >
> > What am I missing here? And if the "in" clause is not
> > supported (doesn't seem to be per the docs), would I need to
> > do the following...
> >
> > $str = "(([GIS_KEY] eq \"foo\") or ([GIS_KEY] eq \"bar\") or
> > ([GIS_KEY] eq \"baz\"))";
> >
> > Tia,
> >
> > pk/
> >