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POWhat is a cleaner / better way of parsing data received by an ajax success function?
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  1. POWhat is a cleaner / better way of parsing data received by an ajax success function?
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    copied!<p>I am using an ajax function to receive data. Based on that data, if results are not found I receive a string "No matches found" with some html formatting. If there are results, data is formatted into a table and a "Div" section underneath this section is hidden.</p> <p>Now the issue I am having is, when I find no results, i do not want this "Div" table to disappear.But to check if there are no results, I would have to compare the whole string received by the searchCustomer.php (which is very large).</p> <p>Is there an easier way of doing this?</p> <p>My ajax call:</p> <pre><code>$('#search').click(function(e){ $.ajax({ type : 'GET', url : 'searchCustomer.php', dataType :'html', data:{ lastName : $('#search_LN').val(), firstName : $('#search_FN').val(), phone : $('#search_PN').val() }, success : function(data){ if (data.error == true){ alert("there was an error in the post layer"); } else { $('#searchResults').html(data); if (data.text == '&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color='red'&gt;No matches found&lt;/font&gt;'){ }else{ var ele = document.getElementById("NewCustomerDiv"); ele.style.display = "none"; } } } }); return false; }); </code></pre> <p>Running fire-bug, The actual data received from searchCustomer.php is:</p> <pre><code>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; a.resultBookButton { color: black; padding: 1px; border: 2px outset lightgrey; background: #008800; /* Mozilla: */ background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, lightgrey, #FFFFFF); /* Chrome, Safari:*/ background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(lightgrey), to(#FFFFFF)); text-decoration: none; } a:active { border-style: inset; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;font color='red'&gt;No matches found&lt;/font&gt; </code></pre> <p>I just want to check for "No matches found" or if there is a better way of finding no results.</p>
 

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