I am building an array of data that is being retrieved from the cells of a table. The resulting array looks something like this:

```
[["","","",""],["","9/2/14","","9/17/14"],["","","89ol",""],["","687k","","9-0["p/"],["","245g","245g","356h"],["","","",""],["","","4j6","467j"],["","","9/9/14",""]]

```

I'm saving the data to a MySQL database as a string in one field. I now need to retrieve that data and iterate through it to repopulate the table.

I'm getting the data to an $.ajax function as a string in the above format.

How can I get the individual cell data to populate the cells properly?

**UPDATE:**
Here's the php code I'm using to retrieve the data:

```
$queryGetUserTaskNotes = "SELECT userProgressNotes FROM userProgress WHERE userProgressUserID = $userID AND userProgressSiteID = $siteID and userProgressNotesTable = '" . $taskTableID . "'";
$resultGetUserTaskNotes = @mysqli_query($dbc,$queryGetUserTaskNotes);
if ($resultGetUserTaskNotes) {
    $taskNotes = mysqli_fetch_assoc($resultGetUserTaskNotes);
    echo $taskNotes['userProgressNotes'];
}

```

Here's how I'm getting the data from the php script

```
function GetTaskNotes(siteID,tableID) {
$.ajax({
            url: 'script.php',
    data: {getTaskNotes:'true', userID:userID, siteID:siteID, tableID:tableID},
    success: function(data) {
        console.log('GetTaskNotes data: ' + data);
    }
});
}

```

As for what I've tried so far, I've been working with how to parse the string on the js side in the success function. JSON.parse(data) didn't work and frankly, I'm not sure what else to try.

Thanks!