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Title Test Find Common English Stopwords for Search Engine
Expression
[\s]a[\s]|[\s]about[\s]|[\s]an[\s]|[\s]are[\s]|[\s]as[\s]|[\s]at[\s]|[\s]be[\s]|[\s]by[\s]|[\s]for[\s]|[\s]from[\s]|[\s]how[\s]|[\s]in[\s]|[\s]is[\s]|[\s]it[\s]|[\s]of[\s]|[\s]on[\s]|[\s]or[\s]|[\s]that[\s]|[\s]the[\s]|[\s]this[\s]|[\s]to[\s]|[\s]was[\s]|[\s]what[\s]|[\s]when[\s]|[\s]where[\s]|[\s]who[\s]|[\s]will[\s]|[\s]with[\s]|[\s]the[\s]|[\s]www[\s]
Description
use this to produce search strings in your programs that run more efficiently. use the replace of the regex class to remove the characters from the user input then use the resulting string to query the database...
Matches
matched words listed between the whitespace character class
Non-Matches
the words not included in the white space character class
Author Rating: The rating for this expression. Chris Morton
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Title: Good but...
Name: Steve Caligula
Date: 12/13/2006 1:46:37 PM
Comment:
What happens when someone types something like this? Your regex will pick up "this" because there is no whitespace after. Should check for non alpha-num's after too.


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