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Disclaimer: I fully understand the risks/downsides of using eval but this is one niche case where I couldn't find any other way. In Google Apps Scripting, there still is no built-in capability to import a script as a library so many sheets can use the same code; but, there is a facility built-in where I can import text from a plaintext file. Here's the eval-ing code: var id = [The-docID-goes-here]; var code = DocsList.getFileById(id).getContentAsString(); var lib = eval(code); Logger.log(lib.fetchDate()); Here's some example code I'm using in the external file: { fetchDate: function() { var d = new Date(); var dateString = (d.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + d.getDate() + "/" + d.getFullYear(); return dateString; } } What I'm aiming for is to drop a big object literal (containing all the library code) onto a local variable so I can reference it's properties/functions like they're contained in their own namespace.
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