When working with text, a common task is to “break apart” text strings using a delimiter.
To make it easier to extract the text from the start or end of a cell’s contents, we've added two functions that simply return everything before or after your selected delimiter: TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER.
We also added TEXTSPLIT to easily "split" text into multiple segments. Each text segment is then automatically spilled into its own cell through the magic of dynamic arrays.
TEXTBEFORE - Returns text that is before delimiting characters
TEXTAFTER - Returns text that is after delimiting characters
TEXTSPLIT - Splits text into rows or columns using delimiters
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{
sheetName: 'TEXTBEFORE',
cells: [
[{v:"Data",s:"title"}],
["Little Red Riding Hood's red hood"],
["Little red Riding Hood's red hood"],
[{v:"Formulas",s:"title"}, {v:"Results",s:"title"}],
["=FORMULATEXT(B5)", '=TEXTBEFORE(A2,"Red")'],
["=FORMULATEXT(B6)", '=TEXTBEFORE(A3,"red",2)'],
["=FORMULATEXT(B7)", '=TEXTBEFORE(A3,"red",-2)'],
["=FORMULATEXT(B8)", '=TEXTBEFORE(A3,"Red")'],
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{
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[{v:"Data",s:"title"}],
["Little Red Riding Hood's red hood"],
["Little red Riding Hood's red hood"],
[{v:"Formulas",s:"title"}, {v:"Results",s:"title"}],
["=FORMULATEXT(B5)", '=TEXTAFTER(A2,"Red")'],
["=FORMULATEXT(B6)", '=TEXTAFTER(A3,"red",2)'],
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["=FORMULATEXT(B8)", '=TEXTAFTER(A3,"Red")'],
["=FORMULATEXT(B9)", '=TEXTAFTER(A3,"Red",,1)'],
["=FORMULATEXT(B10)", '=TEXTAFTER(A3,"Riding")'],
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{
sheetName: 'TEXTSPLIT',
cells: [
[{v:"Data",s:"title"}],
["Dakota Lennon Sanchez"],
["To be or not to be"],
["1,2,3;4,5,6"],
[],
[{v:"Formulas",s:"title"}, "=FORMULATEXT(B7)"],
[{v:"Results",s:"title"}, '=TEXTSPLIT(A2, " ")'],
[],
[{v:"Formulas",s:"title"}, "=FORMULATEXT(B10)"],
[{v:"Results",s:"title"}, '=TEXTSPLIT(A3, " ")'],
[],
[{v:"Formulas",s:"title"}, "=FORMULATEXT(B13)"],
[{v:"Results",s:"title"}, '=TEXTSPLIT(A4,",",";")'],
],
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}
];
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function setColumnsWidth(sheet, columnsWidth) {
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return;
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for (var i = 0; i < columnsWidth.length; i++) {
sheet.setColumnWidth(i, columnsWidth[i]);
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