Thanks guys, As it turns out, it was a more complex problem than originally thought, involving two datasets. It turned out to be easier and quicker to simply make a new shapefile containing the few routes that I needed.
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Woodbridge [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Need help with Expression On 9/30/2011 10:30 AM, Havard Tveite wrote: > Have you seen: > > http://www.mapserver.org/mapfile/expressions.html > > Feedback on the contents of that page would be appreciated. > > Håvard > > On 9/30/2011 3:51 PM, Bistrais, Bob wrote: >> I'm trying to create an Expression to select features in a Class, >> MapServer 6.0.1. I want to do something such as a wildcard or a Like >> statement, to select records with certain item values. Something >> similar to this: >> >> EXPRESSION ('[RDNAME]' = 'Main%' ) >> >> Or perhaps >> >> EXPRESSION ('[RDNAME]' like 'Main%') >> >> -neither of these formats worked for me. I checked the MS >> documentation under Expression, but could not find the solution. Can >> anyone shed some light on this? >> > Håvard, You can use a regular expression like: CLASSITEM "RDNAME" EXPRESSION /^Main\.*/ -Steve W _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
