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SpreadsheetApp.getUi().alert('foo bar')

When I use this piece of code, it appears as 'foo bar', removing the additional spaces in between. is there a way coerce Google App Script to do otherwise? It appears to only remove additional spaces, which makes sense, but I'd rather have spaces than dashes. If there isn't a way to do it through the UI API, what alternatives do I have?

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  • Just realized the code formatting also removed the extraneous spaces in the question. I'll try to edit it to reflect what I meant.
    – David Tan
    Mar 20, 2022 at 12:02

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Instead of using spaces consider to use non-breaking spaces \xa0. The following code uses String.prototype.replace and a regular expression to replace all the spaces by non-breaking spaces.

function myFunction() {
  const message = 'foo        bar'.replace(/ /g,'\xa0');
  SpreadsheetApp.getUi().alert(message);
}
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  • Oh thanks this works! That's a nifty trick I'll keep in mind.
    – David Tan
    Mar 21, 2022 at 3:14

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