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I am running an old version of Angular - I have an object within my localStorage and I am trying to retrieve a single item from the object (rather than the whole the thing..)

var email = localStorage.user;

However the output of the localStorage.user variable is much longer (see below)- how would I retrieve the email address in this case 'bob@abc.com'?

{"firstname":"Bob","lastname":"Dole","id":"2000001999","accountId":"15","email":"bob@abc.com","instances":[{"name":"Test"}]}"
Zabs
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LocalStorage values are always stored as strings. In order to refer to the email in the object, we need to convert it to a JSON. We can do that by parsing the string using JSON.parse() method like below : 

var email = JSON.parse(localstorage.user).email
Supradeep
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You have Json structure not JS object, so parse it 1st

var email = JSON.parse(localStorage.user).email;
Lukas Liesis
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Using html5 local storage we can store data, add expire time by using cookies and sessions. https://stackoverflow.com/a/41385990/6554634 go through that, gives a lot of explanation

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