Retrieve Simple Javascript Cookie by name

[JAB Creations]

I have a cookie I set by the name "counter". All I want to do with javascript is say, get the cookie "counter" and print it's value.

The problem I'm facing is that everything is overcomplicated. I can't find any way to simply call a cookie by name and then document.write it's value.

[JAB Creations]

I can do what I want but in PHP and I need to do it in Javascript...

Here is the PHP...

if ($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[cookie_name_hereh]=="0") { }

[dcrombie]

Here's one I prepared earlier:

function getCookie(name) { // use: getCookie("name"); 
 var re = new RegExp(name + "=([^;]+)"); 
 var value = re.exec(document.cookie); 
 return (value!= null)? unescape(value[1]) : null; 
}

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[RonPK]

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