How do I replace text in a spreadsheet with Google Apps Script?

Question

I wanna find a specified text in spreadsheet and replace it with other word. I tried like this.

sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet()
sheet.replaceText (\'         


        

Answer 1

The selected answer does not work with the data containing Date cells. Actually it changes these cells to String and this is not expected behavior.

I modified the code to check if the value is number and change only string values.

function testReplaceInSheet(){
    var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet()
    replaceInSheet(sheet,'values','test');
}

function replaceInSheet(sheet, to_replace, replace_with) {
  //get the current data range values as an array
  var values = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();

  //loop over the rows in the array
  for(var row in values){

    //use Array.map to execute a replace call on each of the cells in the row.
    var replaced_values = values[row].map(function(original_value){
      if (typeof original_value != 'string') {
        return original_value;
      } else {
        return original_value.replace(to_replace,replace_with);
      }
    });

    //replace the original row values with the replaced values
    values[row] = replaced_values;
  }

  //write the updated values to the sheet
  sheet.getDataRange().setValues(values);
}

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