Regular expression in Mapfile

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM
Fri Jun 3 09:00:45 PDT 2005


EXPRESSION /^4[12345]00$/

is probably what you want.

Christopher R. Thorne wrote:
> Hello,
> I am working on classifying land us polygon layers and I wish to us 
> regular expressions. I have searched the archive and it came up short 
> for what I am looking for. The mapfile reference also was a little 
> skimpy. ;)
> 
> I would like to define an expression the finds values (4100, 4200, 4300 
> 4400 4500) and place these features in a single class. What would be the 
> best (least expensive) expression?
> 
> For example,
> 
> CLASS
>   EXPRESSION /[4000-4501]/
> END
> 
> (I am not even sure if I have defined this correctly.)
> 
> Also, does anyone have a good reference to regex?
> 
> Chris
> 
> 



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