[mapserver-users] comment out large section of map file

Matt McClelland matt at wildwalks.com
Mon Nov 28 00:27:57 EST 2011


Thanks Jukka

A good work around and does sound like a better way of organising my main
map file (which is now over 12 000 lines).

Thanks

Matt  :)


On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Rahkonen Jukka
<Jukka.Rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A workaround is to write the large section into separate text file and add
> it into the main mapfile with INCLUDE. Then there would be only one line to
> comment out. I am nowadays adding almost all layers as includes. It makes
> it easy to re-use the same layers in several mapfiles.
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> ________________________________
> Matt McClelland wrote:
>
>
> > Hi All
>
> > I notice you can comment one line in a mapfile using a #
> > Is there a way of commenting out a large section like in PHP where you
> use /*    */ ??
> > It would be handing when working on large map files.
>
>  > Matt  :)
>
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