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Calvin Ong
Calvin Ong

Reputation: 77

Google Apps Script - remove spaces using .replace method does not work for me

I am using Google Apps Script to create apps. I encounter issue when I try to remove whitespaces from my spreadsheet value. I have referred alot of posts & comments in stackoverflow and other forum too. They are all talking about using .replace method. However, .replace method does not work for me.

var ItemArray = <<getValue from google spreadsheet>>
var tValue = ItemArray[0][2].toString();

for (var row = 0; row<ItemArray.length; row++)
{
   var TrimmedStrA = ItemArray[row][2].toString().replace(' ', '');
   var TrimmedStrB = tValue.replace(' ', '');

   if (TrimmedStrA == TrimmedStrB)
   {
      <<other code>>

   } //end if
} //end of loop

Upvotes: 7

Views: 57523

Answers (2)

rGil
rGil

Reputation: 3719

A simple RegExp object should be used in the replace() method. \s is a simple solution to find whitespace. The 'g' provides a global match for instances of whitespace:

tValue.replace(/\s/g, "")

This will get you pretty close without knowing what your data looks like.

.replace() documentation here.

Upvotes: 10

lockhrt
lockhrt

Reputation: 875

You may use split function followed by join. It's very simple to use.

yourString = yourString.split(" ").join("")

It'll remove all spaces no matter where they are located in the stirng.

Upvotes: 2

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