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title: "Apps Script V8: Template literals – Desktop liberation"
author: "Martin Hawksey"
date: 2020-03-24T09:00:00+00:00
modified: 2020-03-23T20:56:57+00:00
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description: "It’s a shorthand way of using a template into which variables are subsituted in a string. This allows for better reuse of string structures, and a few other goodies besides (like all V8 additions, it’s..."
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# Apps Script V8: Template literals – Desktop liberation

> It’s a shorthand way of using a template into which variables are subsituted in a string. This allows for better reuse of string structures, and a few other goodies besides (like all V8 additions, it’s more than just a syntactical spruce up)

Bruce Mcpherson has a very useful post highlighting the benefits of using the new V8 runtime when working with string output

Source: *[Apps Script V8: Template literals – Desktop liberation*](https://ramblings.mcpher.com/apps-script/apps-script-v8/apps-script-v8-template-literals/)

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*Published by [Martin Hawksey](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/admin/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/03/apps-script-v8-template-literals-desktop-liberation/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/03/apps-script-v8-template-literals-desktop-liberation/)*