[mapserver-users] not able to label a feature with concatenated strings (data field + string literal)

[Lime, Steve D (DNR)]

Hi Ralf: There looks to be an error in the migration guide with one of
the examples. Specifically: 

  TEXT ([area] + ' acres') should be TEXT ('[area]' + ' acres')

You have to explicitly cast the attribute area to a string. That said
TEXT '[area] acres' should work. What output/error do you get with that?
The new expression parsing isn't used at all in that case so I would 
expect something different that what's below.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Trier
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 8:33 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] not able to label a feature with concatenated strings (data field + string literal)

I' am updated to PHP-Script Version 6.0. 

I older version I labeled features with concatenated strings (data field
+ string literal). 

The documentation of the class section says that Text can be set like:  
Text ([FIRSTNAME],[LASTNAME])
According to the Migration Guide I can use
TEXT ([area] + ' acres')
TEXT '[area] acres'
None of these 3 versions work. 

Mostly I get an error like:
yyparse(): Expression parser error. syntax error
msShapeGetAnnotation: Expression parser error. Failed to process text
expression: 

Any idea, what I can do.
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