There are several examples of “how to read cookies”. Which one do you like the most?
Classical
function GetCookieValue(cookieName) {
var cookies = document.cookie.split(';');
for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
var cookie = cookies[i];
while (cookie.charAt(0) === ' ')
= cookie.substring(1, cookie.length);
cookie if (cookie.indexOf(cookieName) === 0) {
return cookie.substring(cookieName.length + 1, cookie.length);
}
}return null;
}
I see it this way
function getCookie(name) {
var cookies = document.cookie.split('; ');
for(i=0, n=cookies.length; i<n; i++) {
if(cookies[i].indexOf(name) != -1) {
var target = cookies[i].split('=');
}
}if(target) {
return target[1];
else{
}return '';
} }
My faviourite regular expressions
function getCookie(name) {
var matches = document.cookie.match(new RegExp(
"(?:^|; )" + name.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g, '\\$1') + "=([^;]*)"
;
))return matches ? decodeURIComponent(matches[1]) : undefined
}
Key uncertainty
function getCookie(key) {
var keyValue = document.cookie.match('(^|;) ?' + key + '=([^;]*)(;|$)');
return keyValue ? keyValue[2] : null;
}
Lollipop
function getCookie(name) {
var value = "; " + document.cookie;
var parts = value.split("; " + name + "=");
if (parts.length == 2) return parts.pop().split(";").shift();
}
Impermanence
function getCookie(name) {
var cname = name + "=";
var dc = document.cookie;
if ( dc.length > 0 ) {
= dc.indexOf(cname);
begin if ( begin != -1 ) {
+= cname.length;
begin = dc.indexOf(";",begin);
end if (end == -1) end = dc.length;
return unescape(dc.substring(begin, end) );
}
} }
Hopelessness
function GetCookie(name)
{var cookies=document.cookie.split(';');
for(var i=0;i<cookies.length;i++)
{var parts=cookies[i].split('=');
if(name==parts[0].replace(/\s/g,''))
return unescape(parts[1])
}//return undefined..
}