I have tried like this and found that , in the alert box provided in the ajax, the value is printing correctly. The value1 contains 4 values, in the alert box provided in ajax code, the following displays each time with each colunm value of the row.:

<!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head><title>Results</title>
</head>
<body>
content-type: text/html 

Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8



alert('Â  6')

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<!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head><title>Results</title>
</head>
<body>
content-type: text/html 

Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8



alert('Â  sawerr')

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<!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head><title>Results</title>
</head>
<body>
content-type: text/html 

Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8



alert('Â  qswertyqawe')

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============================================ 
<!DOCTYPE html
    PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head><title>Results</title>
</head>
<body>
content-type: text/html 

Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=UTF-8



alert('Â y')

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BUt in the browser, it is showing like : charset=UTF-8 alert('nothing')

In reply to Re^4: retrieving value from ajax call to cgi page by gayu_justin
in thread retrieving value from ajax call to cgi page by gayu_justin

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