trouble with attribute query

[Steve Lime]

John: Would you be so kind as to file a bug on this one. That shouldn't be the case..

  http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver 

Thanks!

Steve

>>> On 7/5/2007 at 7:20 AM, in message <468CE1F3.1000909 at al.umces.edu>, "John B.
Churchill" <jchurchill at AL.UMCES.EDU> wrote:
> I figured out the problem I was having.  It has to do with having 
> underscores "_" in the text field.  If I replace my underscores with 
> hyphens "-", my query works.  This seems to be an odd character for 
> Mapserver to weed out but that appears to be what is happening.
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Hi All,
> 
>      I'm having trouble executing an Attribute Query when I base the 
> query (qitem) on the "filename" field in my shapefile.  I can choose any 
> other field and supply the appropriate qstring and everything works fine 
> but when I use the filename field I get a "no matching records" found error.
> 
>      The text in the long string in the address bar of the browser IS 
> complete and DOES match the value in the shapefile.  Perhaps the text 
> values in the shapefile field are too long for MapServer or special 
> characters like the "." or "-" are causing a problem ?  Can anyone 
> confirm or deny either of my theories about this or point to any other 
> possibilities ?
> 
> The qstring is ...
> p016r032_09-09-1986_lt5_doc.img
> 
> The qitem is "filename" and it is a text field.
> 
> The entire query string in the address bar is ...
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?qlayer=landsat_4&myitem=landsat_4%2Cfilen 
> ame&qstring=p016r032_09-09-1986_lt5_doc.img&map=C%3A%5Cms4w%5CApache%5Chtdocs%5Ci
> mg_browser%5Cimg_browser.map&program=%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmapserv&mode=itemnquery&qitem=f
> ilename
> 
> The error is ...
> msQueryByAttributes(): Search returned no results. No matching record(s)
> found.