Question

I was wondering how I could store a query such as this in an array : "hello again world"

the keywords would be in an input field with id = status, and would have to be split by ” “. Also how would I escape certain words and characters in this array as matched by the words/characters in the array stopwords

Answer 1

//split the words by space
var keywds = $("#status").val().split(" ");
$.each(keywds,function(i,val){
   //check if its an empty string 
   if($.trim(val) == ""){
      keywds.splice(i);
   }//Check if it's in stopwords
   else if($.inArray(val,stopwords)>= 0)       
   {
      keywds.splice(i);
   }
});

http://jsfiddle.net/pfQnt/