I am using this script to generate json based on my spreadsheet.

Some of my cells have a new line that no visible within a cell.
When I fun a script the new line appears like ..mytext \nMytext, etc

I want to replace \n with <br>, so I placed that at line 44

text.replace('\n', "<br>")

which is didn't work at all, so I've changed it to that:

text.replace(/\n/g, "<br>"); 

which didn't work either, the \n is still present within an output.

I believe it has a different code or something, any ideas how to fix?

The text to google sheet is copy-pasted from google docs

CodePudding user response：

From text.replace(/\n/g, "<br>"); and which didn't work either, the \n is still present within an output., in this case, how about the following modification?

From:

text.replace(/\n/g, "<br>"); 

To:

text.replace(/\\n/g, "<br>")

• From I want to replace \n with <br>, so I placed that at [line 44](https://gist.github.com/florentdescroix/9513cfd957f8b2cde7b832cf7170c84a#file-exportjson-js-L44), how about the following modification?

    var output = HtmlService.createHtmlOutput("<textarea style='width:100%;' rows='20'>"   text.replace(/\\n/g, "<br>")   "</textarea>");
  

• When I saw your showing script, at makeJSON_, var jsonString = JSON.stringify(object, null, 4); is returned. By this, I thought that text.replace(/\n/g, "<br>") is required to be modified to text.replace(/\\n/g, "<br>").