Manipulating Cookies with JS

[JBottero]

I am new to JavaScript, so there is probably a better way to do this...

Suppose I have a cookie consisting of a series of numbers, and a have one of those numbers I want to delete from the cookie...

Cookie (example): 12|56|23|67

Number to delete ( idToDelete ): 23

Output: 12|56|67

function delfslist() 
  {
    var cookiename = "fslist"; 
    var idToDelete = document.getElementById('fsid').value; 
    var idArray = null;
    var idArrayLen = null;
    var cookiecontents = null;
    var newcookiecontents = null;
    // Get the cookie
    cookiecontents = get_cookie ( cookiename );
    // If there is a cookie, do this...
    if (cookiecontents != null) {
      // Split the cookie into an array.
      idArray = cookiecontents.split("|");	
      // Get the array count.
      idArrayLen = idArray.length;
      // If there is only ONE, delete the whole cookie.
      if (idArrayLen == 1)
      {	
        // If only one ID in cookie, delete it.
        delete_cookie ( cookie_name )
      } else {
        // Loop through array...
        for (i=0; i < idArrayLen; i++) {
          if (( idArray[i] != idToDelete ) && ( newcookiecontents != null )) {
            newcookiecontents = newcookiecontents+"|"+idArray[i];
          } else if ( idArray[i] != idToDelete ) {
            newcookiecontents = idArray[i];
          }
        }
      }
        set_cookie(cookiename, newcookiecontents);
      }
   }

Set_cookie and get_cookie are functions that do what they sound like.

So, my question is: Is there a better way to do this?

[JBottero]

I'm wondering if there might be a way to apply Regular Expressions to this problem?

[codeexploiter]

Try this one

function delfslist() {
    var cookieName = "fslist";
    var idToDelete = document.getElementById('fsid').value;
    var cookiecontents = null;
    var idArray;
    cookiecontents = get_cookie(cookiename); // If there is a cookie, do this...
    if (cookiecontents !== null) {
        idArray = cookicontent.split("|");
        for (var i = 0; i < idArray.length; i++) {
            if (idArray[i] === idToDelete) {
                idArray.splice(i, 1);
            }
        }
        cookiecontents = idArray.join("|");
        if (cookiecontents !== "") {
            set_cookie(cookiename, cookiecontents);
        }
    }
}

[vwphillips]

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