{"id":15335,"date":"2023-07-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/blog\/2023\/07\/25\/apps-script-blog-understanding-variables-in-javascript\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:14:45","slug":"apps-script-blog-understanding-variables-in-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/blog\/2023\/07\/25\/apps-script-blog-understanding-variables-in-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"Reassigning Values to Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is a corrected post after AI explains the code included in the book “Google Apps Script 101: Building Work Automation For Free”<\/a>. Added a strikethrough<\/s> when editing what AI has written, and added color<\/span> when edited by author<\/p>\n

Summary<\/h2>\n

Variables are fundamental components in programming languages that allow you to store and manipulate data. In this blog, we will explore how to reassign values to<\/span> variables work<\/s> in Apps Script using JavaScript.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/h2>\n
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  1. Code<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Code Explanation<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Example<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. AI Prompt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Code<\/h2>\n
    \n    function variables2(){\n      let value = 1\n      Logger.log(value)\n\n      value = 2\n      Logger.log(value)\n    }\n    <\/code><\/pre>\n
    Code Explanation<\/h2>\n
    The code above demonstrates the use of variables in Apps Script. It declares a variable named value<\/code> and assigns it an initial value of 1. The Logger.log(value)<\/code> statement logs the value of the variable to the Apps Script console. The code then updates the value of the variable to 2 and logs it again.<\/p>\n
    Example<\/h2>\n
    Let’s run the code and see the output in the Apps Script console:<\/p>\n
    \n    1\n    2\n    <\/code><\/pre>\n
    AI Prompt<\/h2>\n
    Write a function in Apps Script that declares a variable named value<\/code> and assigns it an initial value of 1. Log the value of the variable to the console. Update the value of the variable to 2 and log it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Variables are fundamental components in programming languages that allow you to store and manipulate data. In this blog, we will explore how variables work in Apps Script using JavaScript.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,118],"tags":[512,69,7],"class_list":["post-15335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet","category-apps-script","tag-ai-assisted","tag-script","tag-spreadsheet"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17206,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions\/17206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autooffice.co.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}