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Google App Scripts find text in spreadsheet and return location index

I am a novice here to google app scripts and my JavaScript is also not very strong, but neither of these seem to be the problem here as my code works the first time I run it but then when I try to call it again it fails.
Simply I am trying to have a function that will dynamically find a given text in a given range. While it looks like there might be a built in package that does this I cannot figure out how to implement it. And the documentation is not helpful for someone new.
Option 1: was to implement the following: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/text-finder#findAll()
Since that has not been sucessful in finding out how to do it I moved to creating the following simple two functions, Option 2:
function findIndexRow(range,fText){
for(var i = 0; i<range.length;i++){
for(var j = 0; j<range.length;j++){
if(range[i][j] == fText){
var fTextRow = i+1;
var fTextCol = j+1;
}
}
}
return fTextRow
}
function findIndexCol(range,fText){
for(var i = 0; i<range.length;i++){
for(var j = 0; j<range.length;j++){
if(range[i][j] == fText){
var fTextRow = i+1;
var fTextCol = j+1;
}
}
}
return fTextCol
}
It takes in a range that I defined like:
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById('the-gsheet-id');
var CurrSheet = sheet.getSheetByName('Sheet1');
var SHTvalues = CurrSheet.getDataRange().getValues();
So the above works when I call it once in my main code but the second time it returns null, help here as to why re calling the same function does not work.
var text1Row = findIndexRow(SHTvalues,"text1");
var text1Col = findIndexCol(SHTvalues,"text1");
Logger.log(text1Row)
Logger.log(text1Col)
var text2Row = findIndexRow(SHTvalues,"text2");
var text2Col = findIndexCol(SHTvalues,"text2");
Logger.log(text2Col)
Logger.log(text2Row)
I can't understand why my logs return the correct values for text1Row and text1Col but when it is called a second time the text2Row and text2Col both return null

I believe your goal as follows.
You want to search a text value from a sheet in the Google Spreadsheet, and want to retrieve the row and column numbers of the found values.
You want to achieve this using TextFinder.
For this, how about this answer?
Sample script:
var findText = "text1";
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById('the-gsheet-id');
var CurrSheet = sheet.getSheetByName('Sheet1');
var SHTvalues = CurrSheet.createTextFinder(findText).findAll();
var result = SHTvalues.map(r => ({row: r.getRow(), col: r.getColumn()}));
console.log(result)
Note:
About my logs return the correct values for text1Row and text1Col but when it is called a second time the text2Row and text2Col both return null in your script, if there are the values of text1 and text2 in Sheet1, text1Row, text1Col, text2Col and text2Row has the values. If only the value of text1 is put in Sheet1, text1Col and text2Col has the values. But text2Col and text2Row has no values (null). Please be careful this.
But in this case, when 2 values of `text1 are put to the cells "A1" and "A2", only "A2" is returned. Also please be careful this.
In this sample script, please enable V8.
References:
createTextFinder() in Class Sheet
Class TextFinder

Here's a script that I used for searching through my spreadsheets when I'm having trouble finding the sheet I want. It does read another sheet to get a list of spreadsheets to search through.
function regexSearch(sObj) {
var ass=SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var startRow=2;
var msrsh=ass.getSheetByName('MultiSearchResults');
msrsh.clearContents();
msrsh.appendRow(['Path','FileName','FileId','SheetName','CellA1Notation','Value','Pattern']);
msrsh.activate();
var sh=ass.getSheetByName('SelectedSpreadsheets');
var hA=sh.getRange(1,1,1,sh.getLastColumn()).getValues()[0];
var getArrayIndex={};
hA.forEach(function(e,i){getArrayIndex[e]=i;});
var rg=sh.getRange(startRow,1,sh.getLastRow()-startRow+1,sh.getLastColumn());
var ssA=rg.getValues();
var matches='';
var n=0
for(var k=0;k<ssA.length;k++) {
var fileid=ssA[k][getArrayIndex['FileId']];
var filename=ssA[k][getArrayIndex['FileName']];
var filepath=getFilePathFromId(ssA[k][getArrayIndex['FileId']]);
//Logger.log(fileid);
var ss=SpreadsheetApp.openById(fileid);
Logger.log(sObj.pattern);
var tf=ss.createTextFinder(sObj.pattern).useRegularExpression(true);
var all=tf.findAll();
for(var i=0;i<all.length;i++) {
if(i==0)n++;
matches+=Utilities.formatString('<br /><b>Path:</b> %s <b>Sheet:</b> %s <b>Cell:</b> %s <b>Value:</b> %s<hr width="100%"/>',filepath,all[i].getSheet().getName(),all[i].getA1Notation(),all[i].getValue());
msrsh.appendRow([filepath,filename,fileid,all[i].getSheet().getName(),all[i].getA1Notation(),all[i].getValue(),sObj.pattern]);
}
}
if(matches) {
sObj.matches=matches;
sObj.message=Utilities.formatString('<p>Pattern %s was found in %s spreadsheet out of a total of %s</p>',sObj.pattern,n,ssA.length);
}else{
sObj.message=Utilities.formatString('No Matches found for %s',sObj.pattern);
}
return sObj;
}

Show value of variable from json string

I have a for-loop:
var player = 5;
for (var i = 0; i <10; i++) {
$("#id").append('<div class="game_content_text">'+json_var[i].content+'</div>');
}
The json looks like:
"content":"<script>player</script>"
Now I only want to to write down the 5 but nothing is showing...
Edit: I simplified it. Why I have to show more code? The problem is in this lines...
For example if i show a simple text from the json ("content":"example!") it works...
For explanation:
I have a buck of personal questions in the JSON Feed.
Example: "Hello 'name_variable' how are you?"
And in the the 'name_variable' i want show random names...

If we append script tag dynamically then you need to call that code which is inside newly added script.
A script tag result cannot be assign a variable or it cannot be shown as result.
You can try following example
$(function(){
var test = "this.Foo = function() {alert('hi');}";
var F=new Function (test);
(new F()).Foo(); //Shows "Hi" alert
});

I'd like to get more code simply for the fact that I can understand the context better, because your code is rather confusing.
So apparently you try to display the value player in all your appended elements?
var player = 5;
for (var i = 0, l = json_var.length; i < l; i++) {
$("#id").append('<div class="game_content_text">' + player + '</div>');
}
Otherwise, if you really need that script to be stored in the json (for some reason). I'm assuming the class "game_content_text" is only used for this.
var player = 5;
for (var i = 0, l = json_var.length; i < l; i++) {
$("#id").append('<div class="game_content_text">' + json_var[i].content + '</div>');
}
"content": "<script>$('.game_content_text').append(player);</script>"
I'm not all that familiar with jQuery, but that should work.
Also, I really do not recommend this.

Javascript add/remove class in array only works once

I get an Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'value' of undefined, where undefined is an array, after I perform a function that add/removes a class to an object in that array.
The code:
var tabs = document.getElementsByClassName("et_pb_tab");
var toggles = document.getElementById("tabsacc").getElementsByClassName("et_pb_toggle");
for (var i = 0; i < toggles.length; i++) {
toggles[i].onclick = function() {
var active = document.querySelector(".et_pb_active_content");
active.classList.remove("et_pb_active_content", "et-pb-active-slide");
var num = this.className.slice(-1);
tabs[num].classList.add("et_pb_active_content", "et-pb-active-slide");
};
}
I am basically trying to combine an accordion and tabs on a site that I'm still getting familiar with. The jQuery library is too old to use some current functions and I haven't updated it yet.
Site is: http://www.aberdeenservices.com/ci-data-tabs

I realized that I wrote the code to find the last character of a string of classes, but the tabs module rearranged the order and caused an error. I instead used "search()" to find the index of the class I wanted, added the length, and used "charAt()" to get the number at the end of the class. Thanks guys, the finished code will be at the links below and I've attached my code snippet.
<script>
var tabs = document.getElementsByClassName("et_pb_tab");
var toggles = document.getElementById("tabsacc").getElementsByClassName("et_pb_toggle");
for (var i = 0; i < toggles.length; i++) {
toggles[i].onclick = function() {
var active = document.querySelector(".et_pb_active_content");
active.classList.remove("et_pb_active_content","et-pb-active-slide");
var thisclass = this.className;
var substrclass = thisclass.search("et_pb_accordion_item_");
var num = thisclass.charAt(substrclass + 21);
tabs[num].classList.add("et_pb_active_content","et-pb-active-slide");
};
}
</script>
http://www.aberdeenservices.com/ci-data-tabs
http://www.aberdeenservices.com/ci-data

function to change argument to another sign

I dynamically create this list element and information a user has typed in shows up in it when a button is clicked 'info' is text and shuld show as it is but 'grade' is a number that i want to convert to another sign with the function changeNumber() but I am new to javascript and cant figure out how to make this function, can anyone give a suggestion or point me in the right direction?
var list = $("#filmlista");
var list_array = new Array();
function updateFilmList()
{
document.getElementById("name").value = '';
document.getElementById("star").value = 0;
var listan = list_array[0][0];
var grade = list_array[0][1];
var element = '<li class="lista">' + list + '<span class="grade">'+ changeNumber(grade) +'</span></li>';
list.append(element);
}
should I use innerHTML? not shure I understand how it works? and how do I use the replace method if I have to replace many different numbers to the amount of signs the number is?
for example if the number is 5 it should show up as: *****, if number is 3 show up as: *** and so on

Here's some code that should do the trick:
Add this function into your script.
function changeNumber(number) {
var finalProduct = "";
for (var i = 0; i < number; i++) {
finalProduct += "*";
}
return finalProduct;
}
Replace the updateFilmsList with this code.
document.getElementById("name").value = '';
document.getElementById("star").value = 0;
var listan = list_array[0][0];
var grade = changeNumber(list_array[0][1]);
var element = '<li class="lista">' + list + '<span class="grade">'+ grade +'</span></li>';
list.append(element);

It looks like you're trying to do something like PHP's str_repeat. In that case, take a look at str_repeat from PHPJS

There are options other than a loop:
function charString(n, c) {
n = n? ++n : 0;
return new Array(n).join(c);
}
charString(3, '*'); // ***
You can use innerHTML to set the text content of an element provided none of the text might be mistaken for markup. Otherwise, set the textContent (W3C compliant) or innerText (IE proprietary but widely implemented) property as appropriate.

How to remove a null element in jquery?

I have an application in which i am storing values in localstorage. By default my first value is null due to which i am getting error to run the code so i want to remove the first element and continue the processes. can anyone please help me how to remove first element from list?
Piece of my code is below:
var str = localStorage.getItem("appidlist");
var mySplitResult = str.split(",");
for(var i = 0; i < mySplitResult.length; i++) {
if (.....) {
.
.
}
}
where str returns null,1,2,3,.....
I hope my question is clear can anybody help me.

This should also work:
var str = localStorage.getItem("appidlist");
var mySplitResult = str.split(",");
mySplitResult.splice(0, 1);

You can use .shift().
mySplitResult.shift()

Instead of uing the shift() function, I would suggest you to create a function that return a new clean array. This will solve even the case where there are more than one (and in any postion) null value.
You can use this solution

This should do the trick:
var str = localStorage.getItem("appidlist");
var mySplitResult = str.split(",").splice(1); // Remove the first item.
for(var i = 0; i < mySplitResult.length; i++) {
// Stuff
}