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

Apparently MDN has never heard of the word-boundary regex character class \b, which matches contiguous \w+ that is bounded on either side with \W+:

getCookie = function(name) {
    var r = document.cookie.match("\\b" + name + "=([^;]*)\\b");
    return r ? r[1] : null;
};

var obligations = getCookie('obligations');