Way to keep spaces in Google App Script alert?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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);
}