function createCookie(name,value,days) {
	if (days) {
		var date = new Date();
		date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
	var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
} else var expires = "";
	document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
}
function Set_Cookie( name, value, expires, path, domain, secure )
{
      // set time, it's in milliseconds
      var today = new Date();
      today.setTime( today.getTime() );  
      /*
      if the expires variable is set, make the correct
      expires time, the current script below will set
      it for x number of days, to make it for hours,
      delete * 24, for minutes, delete * 60 * 24
      */
      if ( expires )      {
          expires = expires * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
}
      var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) );  
      document.cookie = name + "=" +escape( value ) +
      ( ( expires ) ? ";expires=" + expires_date.toGMTString() : "" ) +
      ( ( path ) ? ";path=" + path : "" ) +
      ( ( domain ) ? ";domain=" + domain : "" ) +
      ( ( secure ) ? ";secure" : "" );
}
function Get_Cookie( check_name ) {
        // first we'll split this cookie up into name/value pairs
        // note: document.cookie only returns name=value, not the other components
        var a_all_cookies = document.cookie.split( ';' );
        var a_temp_cookie = '';
        var cookie_name = '';
        var cookie_value = '';
        var b_cookie_found = false; // set boolean t/f default f
        for ( i = 0; i < a_all_cookies.length; i++ )
        {
               // now we'll split apart each name=value pair
               a_temp_cookie = a_all_cookies[i].split( '=' );
               // and trim left/right whitespace while we're at it
               cookie_name = a_temp_cookie[0].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');
               // if the extracted name matches passed check_name
               if ( cookie_name == check_name )
               {
                       b_cookie_found = true;
                       // we need to handle case where cookie has no value but exists (no = sign, that is):
                       if ( a_temp_cookie.length > 1 )
                       {
                              cookie_value = unescape( a_temp_cookie[1].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') );
                       }
                       // note that in cases where cookie is initialized but no value, null is returned
                       return cookie_value;
                       break;
               }
               a_temp_cookie = null;
               cookie_name = '';
        }
        if ( !b_cookie_found )
        {
               return null;
        }
}

function readCookie(name) {
	var nameEQ = name + "=";
	var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
	for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
		var c = ca[i];
		while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
		if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
	}
	return null;
}
function eraseCookie(name) {
	createCookie(name,"",-1);
}
function splitTextIntoSpan(textToSplit,elementNum){
 	//Split the document
 	returnElements=textToSplit.split('##');
 	//Process each of the elements 	
	for ( var i=returnElements.length-1; i>=0; --i ){
 		//Remove everything before the 1st span	
 		spanPos = returnElements[i].indexOf('##');		
 		//if we find a match , take out everything before the span
 		if(spanPos>0){
 			subString=returnElements[i].substring(spanPos);
 			returnElements[i]=subString;
 		} 
 	}
	return returnElements[elementNum];
 }