Noise words in full text search....

[macyp]

I am developing a search page. If the users enter, words like "and",
"an" etc, it gives an error. I read something abt noise words. I want
to display a friendly error message to the users if they enter noise
words.
I am storing all the noise words in an array, and string comparing the
keyword the user entered with each element of the array, else
redirecting them to a searchresults page. But when I am doing this, it
is redirecting to the searchresults page anyway...with an error abt the
noise words.
How can I do error handling so that, when the error is about noise
words, it displays an alert box, or something like that and asks the
user to redefine their search.
Any suggestions?

 

[Elton Wang]

Hi there,

One way you can show message on client-side is like this:

Add a lablebox, lblMessage, in search page.
Then
if(findNoiseWords()){
lblMessage.Text = "<script>alert('" + strMessage + "')
</script>";
}else{
Response.Redirect(searchresults.aspx);
}

Hope it helps,

Elton Wang
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