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Sorting a two dimensional array in javascript

Sorting arrays in JavaScript is done via the method array.sort(). Passing in a function reference into array.sort() As touched on already, array.sort() accepts an optional parameter in the form of a function reference (lets call it sortfunction). The format of this function looks like this: [code] array.sort(sortfunction) function sortfunction(a, b){ //Compare "a" and "b" in some fashion, and return -1, 0, or 1 } [/code] When such a function is passed in...

PHP Array List of English Stop Words

Stop Words are words which do not contain important significance to be used in Search Queries. Usually these words are filtered out from search queries because they return vast amount of unnecessary information. A better definition is provided below: “Words that do not appear in the index in a particular database because they are either insignificant (i.e., articles, prepositions) or so common that the results would be higher than the system can handle (as in the case of IUCAT where terms suc...