I am able to get the range values using getValues() and put it into a string by declaring the following variables in Google App Script
var ss = SpreadsheetAp
You can also use filter().
filter()
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Test"); var range_input = ss.getRange("A1:A").getValues(); var filtered_input = range_input.filter(String);