Matt,
It looks like Steve Lime's regular expression example will get you what you are
looking for.
One strategy to think about with MapServer (and any other Web map server) is
that when you are looking for the best performance, you want to pre-process
your data as much as possible. This me
case.
Steve
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[mailto:mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of tommaso
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:29 AM
To: wildcolour
Cc: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] RE: Real life sample of a Mapfile for shp files
Hi, for regular expression you need to set the parameters FILTERITEM and
FILTER.
>From the documentation
(http://mapserver.org/mapfile/expressions.html#regular-expression-comparison)
LAYER
NAME "regexp-example"
FILTERITEM "placename"
FILTER /hotel/
...
END
I think, the paramete