STMLineFromText (geometry Data Type)

Returns a geometry instance from an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Well-Known Text (WKT) representation augmented with any Z (elevation) and M (measure) values carried by the instance.

Syntax

STMLineFromText ( 'multilinestring_tagged_text' , SRID )

Arguments

• multilinestring_tagged_text
  Is the WKT representation of the geometry MultiLineString instance you wish to return. multilinestring_tagged_text is an nvarchar(max) expression.

• SRID
  Is an int expression representing the spatial reference ID (SRID) of the geometry MultiLineString instance you wish to return.

Return Types

SQL Server return type: geometry

CLR return type: SqlGeometry

OGC type: MultiLineString

Remarks

This method will throw a FormatException if the input is not well-formatted.

Examples

The following example uses STMLineFromText() to create a geometry instance.

DECLARE @g geometry;
SET @g = geometry::STMLineFromText('MULTILINESTRING ((100 100, 200 200), (3 4, 7 8, 10 10))', 0);

SELECT @g.ToString();

See Also

Other Resources

OGC Static Geometry Methods