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copied!<p>Let's say I have a JSON object returned from a different domain as follows (This originally contains fairly big volume of data so I omitted the irrelevant parts while keeping its structure intact):</p> <pre><code>{ "query": { "count": 1, "created": "2013-10-08T21:06:49Z", "lang": "en-US", "results": { "quote": { "symbol": "GOOG", "Ask": "854.63", "AverageDailyVolume": "1837530", "PreviousClose": "865.74" } } } } </code></pre> <p>Although I feel fairly comfortable working with JSON, I'm only beginning to learn the nuts and bolts of the jQuery .ajax function for interacting with JSON. I wrote very basic bits of code (below) just to ensure I can retrieve the JSON object and extract one or more values from it:</p> <pre><code>$.ajax({ type: "get", cache: false, dataType: "jsonp", url: "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select * from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol in ('" + source + "') &format=json&diagnostics=true&env=http://Fdatatables.org/alltables.env&callback=?", success: function(data) { console.log(data.query.results.quote.symbol); // expected output is "GOOG" } }); </code></pre> <p>When I run above code in Firefox, I get <code>TypeError: data.query is undefined</code> error in the browser console. I noticed that there are several questions already posted that are similar to what I am asking here but haven't found anything that sufficiently addresses this issue - at least from my understanding.</p> <p>Any advice/tips will be much appreciated. </p>

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