double quotes in expression

[Steve Lime]

You could:

 1) Write your expression like so using single quotes:

    EXPRESSION 'Symbol (12, 1, "ESRI IGL Font20", 1)'

 2) Perhaps consider looking for sub-strings with regular expressions? Depends on how the values differ though from symbol to symbol (that is is the 12, the 1, the "ESRI IGL Font20" or the 1 really important):

    EXPRESSION /ESRI IGL FONT 20/ 

Steve 

>>> Torsten Foy <torsten.foy at UNI-ROSTOCK.DE> 5/12/2005 11:57:10 AM >>>
Dear mailinglist,

I'd like to qurey some data with an expression in the classobject of the map-file. The qurey is a string that contains double quotes. I can't modify this string because it is the definition of a marker symbol out of MapInfo stored in Oracle. I got no other attribute for the query. How can I tell the Mapserver to extract the features to be draw with this marker?
The strings to search for looks like this:

Symbol (12, 1, "ESRI IGL Font20", 1)

The Expression for a string-query starts and ends with double quotes, so that the whole expression would look like this:

EXPRESSION "Symbol (12, 1, "ESRI IGL Font20", 1)"

The start and the end quotes are writen to the map-file by the setexpression function of PHP-MapScript. So ich can't change them.
If anyone knows a solution for this problem I would be very happy to participate.

Thanks a lot
Torsten

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