It's not possible within mapserver itself. With PostGIS or Oracle Spatial you can specify functions in your data statements essentially creating a column on-the-fly. Perhaps that's possible with SDE as well?
Steve >>> On 11/11/2008 at 7:14 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I-Real - Rob ter Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > As in the subject. Is it possible to do a substr on a string like SQL > can do. > > I use SDE for source and in the description there is a long string, but > i only need the last 3 characters. > > I can't add column in the database so thats no option. I only have a sde > host username and password. > > Can anyone help me? > > kind regards, > > Rob ter Haar _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
