Multiple keys for javascript cookie

[dinosf]

Hey guys -

Sorry for the basic question, but my javascript knowledge is small, I've got an app that I'm developing and need to use a cookie the document.cookie(name=value) works fine, but I'm not sure of the syntax to assign multiple keys to the same cookie (e.g. is is document.cookie("name"), key1=value). It's primarily for an economy of code that I'm asking, I could use 3 cookies for my purposes, but 1 with 3 name value pairs seems more efficient. Thank you for your time in reading this.

 

[BabyJeffy]

The cookie data could be packed in such a way as to yield the same as 3 cookies... use a known separator and you're sorted.

var val = "key1[!]=[/!]data1[!]|[/!]key2[!]=[/!]data2[!]|[/!]key3[!]=[/!]data3";
document.cookie(name=val);

You would access the main cookie using "name" and then take the resulting value and split it on the [!]|[/!] character to give you 3 name/value pairs. Finally you could split an individual pair on the [!]=[/!] character.

Hope this makes some sense. The trick is finding a separator that doesn't appear in your dataset

Cheers,
Jeff

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[dinosf]

Perfect. Thank you so much.