Find Cell Matching Value And Return Rownumber

Question

The employee sheet contains the name of the employee in cell C2. The name of the employee should also be on the data sheet in the range B3:B153.

How can I get the ro

Answer 1

I faced this problem today and I found a native method to do the job.

Here is the snippet to test if it works for you:

  var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
  var tosearch = "your text to search";
  var tf = spreadsheet.createTextFinder(tosearch);
  var all = tf.findAll();
  
  for (var i = 0; i < all.length; i++) {
    Logger.log('The sheet %s, cell %s, has the value %s.', all[i].getSheet().getName(), all[i].getA1Notation(), all[i].getValue());
  }