How to replace text in Google Spreadsheet using App Scripts?

Question

I tried to get the value of a range and than remove all points from the cell.

var FILE = SpreadsheetApp.openById(\"xyz\");
var CONTENT = FILE.getSheetByName(         


        

Answer 1

Hope this help you

function removeAccents() {
  var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
  var range = spreadsheet.getRange("F3:F");
  var data  = range.getValues();

  for (var row = 0; row < data.length; row++) {
    for (var col = 0; col < data[row].length; col++) {
      data[row][col] = (data[row][col]).toString().replace(/é/g, 'e');
      data[row][col] = (data[row][col]).toString().replace(/ã/g, 'a');
    }
  }
  range.setValues(data);
};

Answer 2

If this is an exact copy of your script then you have a space in-between A1. and replace but I assume it is not.

@SergeInsas is right the content needs to be a string for the replace() function to work, so if your trying to replace the . in a decimal number then you can use the toString() method first like below.

var FILE = SpreadsheetApp.openById("xyz");
var CONTENT = FILE.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
var A1 = CONTENT.getRange("I17").getValue();
var A1String = A1.toString().replace(".", "");

Or you can multiply the number to get rid of the decimal but this will depend on how many decimal places you have :)

Answer 3

For some reason, this solution doesn't work for me. Here is my whole code that should replace the '+' symbol with 'nothing'

  // I need to replace more occurrences of different strings, so this is just an example..
  var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var range = ss.getRange("G5:G7").getValues();

  // this is a loop, to go through multiple cells that may contain the text, that needs to be replaced.
    for (var i = 0 ; i<range.length ; i++) {
        var le = range.length;
        var stri = range[i].toString().replace("+", "");
        Logger.log(stri);
  }  

  var msg = ui.alert("Replaced?");
  return msg;

Answer 4

Sharing a very helpful solution from Bannager Bong on this Google Docs Editor Help Forum thread. Made a slight modification to the function so that it accepts arguments for the find, replace values and then added a range argument so that the function can target a specific region. Even so, this method is extremely slow (my sheets have 5k rows).

function Cleanup12m() {
  var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
  //fandr(",", "");
  //fandr("\"","");
  fandr("�","",spreadsheet.getRange('BA:BA')); //uses specific range
};

function fandr(find, repl) {
  var r=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getDataRange();
  var rws=r.getNumRows();
  var cls=r.getNumColumns();
  var i,j,a,find,repl;
  //find="abc";
  //repl="xyz";

  for (i=1;i<=rws;i++) {
    for (j=1;j<=cls;j++) {
      a=r.getCell(i, j).getValue();
      if (r.getCell(i,j).getFormula()) {continue;}
      //if (a==find) { r.getCell(i, j).setValue(repl);}
      try {
        a=a.replace(find,repl);
        r.getCell(i, j).setValue(a);
      }
      catch (err) {continue;}
    }
  }
};

//Revised to apply to a selected range
function fandr(find, repl, range) {
  var r= range;//SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getDataRange();
  var rws=r.getNumRows();
  var cls=r.getNumColumns();
  var i,j,a,find,repl;
  //find="abc";
  //repl="xyz";

  for (i=1;i<=rws;i++) {
    for (j=1;j<=cls;j++) {
      a=r.getCell(i, j).getValue();
      if (r.getCell(i,j).getFormula()) {continue;}
      //if (a==find) { r.getCell(i, j).setValue(repl);}
      try {
        a=a.replace(find,repl);
        r.getCell(i, j).setValue(a);
      }
      catch (err) {continue;}
    }
  }
};