A stop-word list omits commonly occurring words or numbers from a full-text search, thus increasing the speed of the search. Use the following guidelines when creating your stop list.

• A stop-word list can have only one word per line with no leading or trailing spaces. Any character after the first word on a line is ignored.

• Apostrophe characters (') are stripped out, and letters before and after are concatenated. For example, "it's" is equivalent to "its".

• The underscore (_) and pound sign (#) characters are treated as normal characters. For example, "_open" will stop only "_open", but not "open".

• Extended chars (ASCII range 128-255) are normalized. For example, "ä" is treated as "a".

• Hyphen (-), semicolon (;), and colon(:) characters are not allowed. These characters have the effect of breaking words, which is equivalent to two words on the same line.

Stop-Word List Template

You can use the following stop-word list as a template by copying the stop words into a text (.txt) file and then adding it to your project.

a - f	g - o	p - z
a	had	other
about	has	over
after	have	several
against	he	she
all	her	some
also	his	such
although	however	than
among	in	that
an	include	the
and	including	their
are	into	then
as	is	there
at	it	these
be	its	they
became	late	this
because	later	through
been	me	to
between	made	under
but	many	until
by	may	use
can	more	was
come	most	we
do	near	were
during	no	when
each	non	where
early	not	which
for	of	who
form	on	with
found	only	you
from	or

Note
Words greater than 1,023 characters are automatically excluded from the full-text search index.

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