[Mapserver-users] concatenate 2 or more fields in shapefile to display in MS as label

[Stephen Clark]

Steve and others,

I am able to get two or more fields concatenated as follows:

TEXT (TWP [TWP] RNG [RNG])

but would like the output to be displayed down the screen instead of across.

How would I insert a Newline Character in this text string?

thanks,
Stephen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Lime" <steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <stephen.clark at focus.ca>; <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] concatenate 2 or more fields in shapefile to
display in MS as label


> Use the TEXT option in the class object. You'd do something like:
>
> TEXT "TWP [TWP] RNG [RNG]"
>
> You could do the concatenation ahead of time in ArcView or any other
> software (e.g. perl with XBase.pm) that could manipulate dbase files.
>
> Steve
>
> >>> "Stephen Clark" <stephen.clark at focus.ca> 2/11/2004 3:56:12 PM >>>
> Hi all,
>
> I have two fields in a Shape file that I would like to Concatenate and
> display as a label in mapserver.
>
> For example:
>
> LAYER
>   NAME township_range
>   TYPE LINE
>   STATUS OFF
>   DATA "d:/shp/townships"
>
>   LABELITEM "TWP"
> # and I want to concatenate
> # LABELITEM "RNG"
> # to the label
>   CLASS
>     COLOR 10 10 10
>     LABEL
>       MINFEATURESIZE 40
>       MINDISTANCE 150
>       POSITION AUTO
>       COLOR 10 10 10
>       FONT arial
>       TYPE truetype
>       SIZE 10
>       FORCE TRUE
>     END
>   END
>
> END
>
> I would like the final string to be like "084 021" .
>
> OR a more general case
> 'TWP' + 'township value' + 'space' + 'RNG' + Range Value'
> like:
> "TWP 084 RNG 021"
>
> Has anyone tried this out?
>
> thanks
> Stephen
>
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