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STLineFromText (geography Data Type)

Returns a geography 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

STLineFromText ( 'linestring_tagged_text' , SRID )

Arguments

  • linestring_tagged_text
    Is the WKT representation of the geographyLineString instance you wish to return. linestring_tagged_text is an nvarchar(max) expression.

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

Return Types

SQL Server return type: geography 

CLR return type: SqlGeography

OGC type: LineString

Remarks

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

Examples

The following example uses STLineFromText() to create a geography instance.

DECLARE @g geography;
SET @g = geography::STLineFromText('LINESTRING(-122.360 47.656, -122.343 47.656 )', 4326);
SELECT @g.ToString();

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