[MapServer-users] LABEL wrap, maxlength oddity

[Scott]

Removing MAXLENGTH altogether did the trick!

Yeah, updating the docs seems appropriate.

Thanks for the quick response Jeff!

On 9/16/24 13:57, Jeff McKenna via MapServer-users wrote:
> Hi Scott!
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> This might be from our more strict checks in MapServer >= 8.  I tried 
> the msautotest for wrap ( 
> https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/blob/main/msautotest/renderers/labels-wrap.map ), and if I set "MAXLENGTH 0" I get your error (I do see in the docs a hidden line of "must be greater than zero", which is odd because above that in the docs it explains the case for "maxlength = 0").
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> If I comment out the MAXLENGTH parameter completely, it wraps at the "|" 
> character as expected (please also try that for your mapfile - does that 
> solve it?).
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> In other words, maybe I just need to update the docs, to not set 
> maxlength, if you want to wrap at the wrap character.
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> Thoughts?
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> thanks,
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> -jeff
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