Get cookie by name

Question

I have a getter to get the value from a cookie.

Now I have 2 cookies by the name shares= and by the name obligations= .

I want to

Answer 1

Here is a one liner to get a cookie with a specific name without the need of any external lib:

var cookie = ("; "+document.cookie).split("; YOUR_COOKIE_NAME=").pop().split(";").shift();

This answer is based on kirlich's brilliant solution. The only compromise of this solution is, that you will get an empty string when the cookie does not exist. In most cases this should not be a deal breaker, though.