{"id":26892,"date":"2022-12-20T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T10:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-combine-search-for-characters-in-two-columns-closed\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T10:44:17","slug":"solved-combine-search-for-characters-in-two-columns-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-combine-search-for-characters-in-two-columns-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Combine search for characters in two columns [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-57350690\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"57350690\" data-parentid=\"57350635\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>DRY (don&#8217;t repeat yourself) code version looks like<\/p>\n<pre><code>var sh = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();\n\nvar containsKey = function(range) {\n    var column = sh.getRange(range).getValues();\n    var values = column.reduce(function (accumulator, currentValue) {\n        return accumulator.concat(currentValue);\n    }, []);\n    return values.some(function (value) { return \/[MWFmwf]\/.test(value); 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