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

[Stephen Clark]

Steve,

When I use the WRAP as indicated below, I get the following error:

loadClass(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near (WRAP):(line 1249)

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: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] concatenate 2 or more fields inshapefile to
display in MS as label


> You have to define a WRAP character, and then place that character in
> your string. So, to break the sting after the township id you'd do
> something like:
>
> WRAP '_'
> TEXT (TWP [TWP]_RNG [RNG])
>
> Steve
>
> >>> "Stephen Clark" <stephen.clark at focus.ca> 2/13/2004 1:35:43 PM >>>
> 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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