[mapserver-users] Characters breaks variable substitution in TEXT parameter

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Nicol,

I have just tested this locally and the following does work:

   TEXT "[attribute1] - [attribute2] - [attribute3]"

   as well as

   TEXT "[attribute1]-[attribute2]-[attribute3]"

Both produce expected map/label results with shp2img.  I am testing with 
MS4W 4.0.3 (MapServer 7.6.0-dev).

You can see my mapfile (I use inline features, so you could even paste 
the feature locally to test): 
https://ms4w.dev/text-multiple/text-multiple.map

Here is the map output: 
https://ms4w.dev/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/ms4w/apps/ticket-text-multiple/text-multiple.map&layers=all&mode=browse&template=openlayers

Hope I am understanding your question properly.  And good morning from 
the east coast of Canada,

-jeff



-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
https://gatewaygeomatics.com/




On 2020-03-28 7:25 a.m., Nicol Hermann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to use the TEXT parameter within a CLASS LABEL block to label
> features with multiple fields.
> 
> CLASS
>        LABEL
>          TEXT "[frist] [second] [third]"
>          COLOR 0 0 0
>          FONT "arial"
>          ...
>        END
> END
> 
> I found that any character in between the specified fields of the TEXT
> keyword breaks the substitution of the fields.
> 
> This works
> TEXT "[frist] [second] [third]"
> 
> Does not work (the output is: '2 - [second] - [third]')
> TEXT "[frist] - [second] - [third]"
> 
> Does not work either (same out like above just with line breaks)
> TEXT "[frist] - [second] - [third]"
> WRAP '-'
> 
> Any idea how to concatenate text with substitutes from multiple field?
> In the ideal case in combination with the WRAP parameter.
> 
> Thanks
> Nicol
> 
>