STMLineFromText (geometry Data Type)
Applies to:
SQL Server
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Managed Instance
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 geometryMultiLineString 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 geometryMultiLineString 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();