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/*!

* jQuery Cookie Plugin
* https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie
*
* Copyright 2011, Klaus Hartl
* Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses.
* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
* http://www.opensource.org/licenses/GPL-2.0
*/

(function($) {

   $.cookie = function(key, value, options) {

       // key and at least value given, set cookie...
       if (arguments.length > 1 && (!/Object/.test(Object.prototype.toString.call(value)) || value === null || value === undefined)) {
           options = $.extend({}, options);

           if (value === null || value === undefined) {
               options.expires = -1;
           }

           if (typeof options.expires === 'number') {
               var days = options.expires, t = options.expires = new Date();
               t.setDate(t.getDate() + days);
           }

           value = String(value);

           return (document.cookie = [
               encodeURIComponent(key), '=', options.raw ? value : encodeURIComponent(value),
               options.expires ? '; expires=' + options.expires.toUTCString() : , // use expires attribute, max-age is not supported by IE
               options.path    ? '; path=' + options.path : ,
               options.domain  ? '; domain=' + options.domain : ,
               options.secure  ? '; secure' : 
           ].join());
       }

       // key and possibly options given, get cookie...
       options = value || {};
       var decode = options.raw ? function(s) { return s; } : decodeURIComponent;

       var pairs = document.cookie.split('; ');
       for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i] && pairs[i].split('='); i++) {
           if (decode(pair[0]) === key) return decode(pair[1] || ); // IE saves cookies with empty string as "c; ", e.g. without "=" as opposed to EOMB, thus pair[1] may be undefined
       }
       return null;
   };

})(jQuery);