[mapserver-users] mapserv cli and run-time substitution

[Seth G]

Ah ok I was looking at the mapfile. Passing &YEAR=1976 in from the command line should work fine.
Maybe the value is being treated as a string, so you could test if the following worked (equals rather than less than):

EXPRESSION ("[year]" = "%year%")

Also maybe try with a different parameter name e.g. MYYEAR just in case YEAR is treated differently as it is used for various OGC services. 

Seth

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On Sun, Feb 6, 2022, at 9:50 AM, andy wrote:
> Hi Seth,
> 
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 at 09:35, Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk> wrote:
>  
>> Shouldn't the variable be wrapped in percentage signs?
>> 
>> EXPRESSION (%year% < 1976)
> 
> my goal is another one. My hardcorded expression is "EXPRESSION ([year] < 1976)".
> 
> I want to use run-time substitution to use "EXPRESSION ([year] < '%year%')", in the same way described here:
> https://mapserver.org/el/mapfile/validation.html#test-with-commandline
> 
> Thank you
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