[mapserver-users] Can I classify attributes using a wildcard?

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at mapgears.com
Fri Apr 10 06:57:34 PDT 2009


boesiii wrote:
> I would like classify a road centerline shapefile.  The shapefile has a coded attribute representing the type of road (ex. A11, A15, A16, A22, A25).  Is there a way I can use a wildcard in my expression (ex. EXPRESSION 'A1*' ) so mapserver will classify all values with a "A1_"?

Yes, using a REGEX expression would do it. The following expression will 
match anything starting with A1:

EXPRESSION /^A1/

Daniel
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