a FOR loop will be display by the following method.
<p id ="demo"></p>
<script>
var cars = ["Civics" , "Corola" , "Ford" , "Mercedeez" , "Pejaro"];
var i;
var text = "";
for (i = 0; i<5; i++) {
text += cars[i];
}
document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML = text;
</script>
I want to ask that why the variable "text" is necessary to use. why we can not simply write like this cars[i];
You need the text variable to store value in it for each iteration.
You can also achieve same result by:
<p id ="demo"></p>
<script>
var cars = ["Civics" , "Corola" , "Ford" , "Mercedeez" , "Pejaro"];
document.getElementById('demo').innerHTML = cars.join ('');
</script>
cars[i] in every iteration of the loop reads different values of the array cars one by one. As per the question, the output needs to be a concatenation of the Strings represented by each cars[i]. This concatenated string needs to be stored somewhere.This is why an extra variable text is needed which keeps on getting longer and longer.
text = "" //i=0
text = "Civics" //i=1 After 1st loop
text = "CivicsCorola" //i=2 After 2nd loop
text = "CivicsCorolaFord" //i=3 After 3rd loop
...
Related
I have been trying several different ways to write an office script to search for a value in a cell and return the row or rows to power automate.
I believe I need to use range.find in order to make use of the "completematch: true" option.
However, I have also tried a filter and a foreach loop to find rows which include the text I am searching for.
I'm after a hint as to which method might be best?
essentially trying to:-
power automate - pass text parameter to the script
Scripts search for a match in excel business spreadsheet
the script finds match(s)
Script passes back the row(s) to powerautomate as an array
this is what I have so far: essentially it just finds the row number in which the matching result is found. This seems to work better to avoid partial matched (as happened with the filter method )
any pointers, most welcome
function main(workbook: ExcelScript.Workbook, siteNameToFilter: string) {
let activeSheet = workbook.getActiveWorksheet();
let range = activeSheet.getUsedRange();
let values = range.getValues();
/**
* This script searches for the next instance of the text "Fino" on the current worksheet.
*/
// Get the next cell that contains "Fino".
let findCell = range.find("Fino", {
completeMatch: true, /* Don't match if the cell text only contains "fino" as part of another string. */
matchCase: false,
searchDirection: ExcelScript.SearchDirection.forward /* Start at the beginning of the range and go to later columns and rows. */
});
// Set focus on the found cell.
findCell.select();
// Remove the "TK" text value from the cell, as well as any formatting that may have been added.
//tkCell.clear(ExcelScript.ClearApplyTo.all);
let row = findCell.getRow().getUsedRange();
let ur = findCell.getUsedRange();
console.log(row);
}
I think Find may only be returning the first match. It sounds like you want all matches with the siteName. To do this, you'd either want to filter the range or loop through it.
Here's an example that loops through the range and adds the values from the rows containing the site name to an array. After the loop's completed, the array containing the values is returning by the function:
function main(workbook: ExcelScript.Workbook, siteNameToFilter: string) {
let activeSheet = workbook.getActiveWorksheet();
let range = activeSheet.getUsedRange()
let values = range.getValues() as string[][];
let rowCount = range.getRowCount()
let colCount = range.getColumnCount()
let colIndex = range.getColumnIndex()
let rowsArr: string[][][] = []
for (let i = 0; i < rowCount; i++) {
for (let j = 0; j < colCount; j++) {
if (values[i][j] === siteNameToFilter) {
rowsArr.push(activeSheet.getRangeByIndexes(i, colIndex, 1, colCount).getValues() as string[][])
}
}
}
return rowsArr
}
I need to rotate the match through variables Cat1 to Catx as long as there is data for the Cat'x'. Whenever I do this this, it does not consider as a variable but the literal Cat4 or Cat5 instead of the variable Cat4 & Cat5 when I try to compile the new category label. Such as the following with i increasing until there is no value to the variable searched for .. i.e. Cat57 has nothing assigned.
category = "Cat"+i
This is the portion of my code I believe that needs to be adjusted .. essentially based on the category I am going to assign it a specific column in my spreadsheet (this part hasn't been added yet) .. still stuck on the matching through multiple categories
if(studentmarks && studentmarks.length > 0 && assign.maxPoints > 0){
for (d = 0; d < studentmarks.length; d++){
var marks = studentmarks[d];
if(student.userId == marks.userId){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openByUrl(url).getSheetByName(shet);
var re = RegExp(Cat1);
if (assign.title.match(re))
ss.appendRow([category, assign.title, marks.assignedGrade,
assign.maxPoints]);
As we have talked in the comments there is no need to actually use RegEx in this case.
Just define an array and iterate through. Without the need
// Define new array
var Cat = [];
//
// Do stuf to populate Cat array
//
//Access your data
for(var i = 0; i < Cat.length; i++){
var element = Cat[i];
}
Please take a look at the following googleapps script code. the spreadsheet it references has 4 values in it. in a2 is the value "Two". I want that when I run this code, i receive an email with "2" in the subject line. I seem to keep on receiving a "4". Any ideas?
function rowofspecificvalue(){
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById("1rMUrZFie94RLFDKaWVBPsQ-jebL8wNA6qsZWivMBDTk").getActiveSheet();
var data = sheet.getRange("a1:a4").getValues();
for(var i = 0; i<data.length;i++){
if(data[i][1] == "Two"){
Logger.log((i+1))
return i+1;
}
} MailApp.sendEmail ("fake_email#gmail.com", i, "");
}
Thanks!
Write
MailApp.sendEmail("fake_email#gmail.com", i-2, "")
and you will "2" have in subject. Second argument of MailApp.sendEmail() function set up subject of email.
Thanks already to Serge insas for his insight both here and here, which have been a godsend for me already. But...I'm having trouble tying everything together with date validation.
To clarify, I have a GAS intended to verify that the date in Column A is (a) more than seven days old and (b) not null. If both pass, the script determines the first empty row in Column G, and then pauses before completing various functions. The beginning of the script looks like...
function getStats() {
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = doc.getSheetByName("Main");
var TITLE_ROW = 1;
var DATE_COL = 1;
var URL_COL = 4;
var sevendaysBefore = new Date(new Date().getTime()-7*24*60*60*1000);
if (DATE_COL != ''||(DATE_COL != null || DATE_COL< sevendaysBefore)) {
var end = sheet.getLastRow();
for( var i = 1; i < end; i++) {
var Gvals = sheet.getRange("G1:G").getValues();
var Glast = Gvals.filter(String).length;
var rowNum = TITLE_ROW+Glast;
var itemurl = sheet.getRange(rowNum,URL_COL).getValues();
Utilities.sleep(500);
...
I've clearly implemented something wrong, though, because the date validation doesn't workâthe script appears to function as though the data in Column A doesn't matter. I'm sure I've done something incredibly idiotic, but I'm too ignorant to spot it on my own. So...anyone know what I've overlooked?
While the other answer is probably working (didn't test), its approach is very different from yours.
Below is code that follows the same logic as yours but works at the array level (to follow recommendations in Best practices).
I added a few comments to show the differences, hoping it will help you to understand how it works.
function getStats() {
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = doc.getSheetByName("Main");
var Glast; // define the variable for later use
var vals = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();// get all data in an array (do that before loop)
var TITLE_ROW = 0;// use array index instead of real row numbers
var DATE_COL = 0;// use array index instead of real column numbers
var URL_COL = 3;// use array index instead of real column numbers
var sevendaysBefore = new Date(new Date().getTime()-7*24*60*60*1000).getTime();// get native value in milliseconds to make comparison easier below
for( var i = 1; i < vals.length; i++) { // start loop from Row 2 (=array index 1)
if(vals[i][0]!='' && vals[i][0]!=null&&vals[i][0].getTime()<sevendaysBefore){continue};// use && instead of ||, we want ALL conditions to be true ( see !='' and !=null)
Glast = i; break ;// first occurrence of data meeting above condition (non null and date < 7 days before)
}
var itemurl = vals[Glast][URL_COL];// get the value from the array
Utilities.sleep(500);
//...
Mistake : You are hard coding DATE_COL = 1 and you are using this in if statement. It doesn't get the value of the cell. Also I am not getting your statement "date in Column A is (a) more than seven days old". Is that date is from a cell or you are iterating through all the cells in column A ?.
Below code will satisfy your need and I tested. Here as example I am checking date validation for cell R1C1(A1).
1)Get the date from cell. You can change it or Iterate the cells in column for date.
2) We have date.valueOf() method which returns the number of milliseconds since midnight 1970-01-01.
3) Validation : check the cell data is date and greater than 7 days
function compDate()
{
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
var cell = sheet.getRange("A1"); //point1
var date01 = new Date();
var date02 = cell.getValue(); //point2
var dateDiff = (date01.valueOf()-date02.valueOf())/(24*60*60*1000);
if((isValidDate(date02)) == true && dateDiff > 7) //point3
Logger.log("success");
}
//below function will return true if the arg is valid date and false if not.
function isValidDate(d) {
if ( Object.prototype.toString.call(d) !== "[object Date]" )
return false;
return !isNaN(d.getTime());
}
I have a form where the user submits a query and then have a Servlet that processes this query and returns the results in XML. With this result trying to populate a table dynamically via Ajax, for such, I use the following code below.
var thead = $("<thead>");
var rowsTHead = $("<tr>");
var tbody = $("<tbody>");
var numberOfColumns;
$(xml).find("head").each(function(){
var variable = $(this).find("variable");
numberOfColumns = variable.length;
for (var i = 0; i < variable.length; i++){
var name = $(variable[i]).attr("name");
rowsTHead.append($("<th>").html(name));
}
});
thead.append(rowsTHead);
$(xml).find("result").each(function(){
var literal = $(this).find("literal");
var rowsTBody = $("<tr class=\"even\">");
literal.length = numberOfColumns;
for (var j = 0; j < literal.length; j++){
var tdBody = $("<td>");
tdBody.html($(literal[j]).text());
rowsTBody.append(tdBody);
}
tbody.append(rowsTBody);
});
$(".tablesorter").empty()
.append(thead)
.append(tbody);
This code works perfectly until it was used in a UNION query. When using a UNION the returned xml comes in the following way http://pastebin.com/y7hXK1Zy
As can be observed, this query has 4 variables that are: gn1, indication1, gn2, indication2.
What is going wrong is that the values of all the variables being written in columns corresponding to gn1 and indication1.
What I wish I was to write the value of each variable in its corresponding column. I wonder what should I change in my code to make this possible.
You need to respect the name values of the binding elements, and relate them back to the columns that you correctly built from parsing the element. When you are doing the find "literal", you are skipping the parsing of the binding elements. You should find "binding", respect the name and look up which column to use based on that, and then for each of those, find the "literal" elements for the actual values.