Javascript Unterminated string literal error

Question

I wonder whether someone could help me please.

I've been working through help I received here: Dynamic Table and Dataset in Scheduled BigQuery Job

I've tried running the code, and I think there is an inherent problem, because when I run the code (below) I receive an error on this line:

 "query": "SELECT

The error is "Unterminated string literal"

    function runQuery() {

          var yesterday = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT", "dd-MM-yyyy'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");

          var configuration = {
          "query": {
            "useQueryCache": false,
            "destinationTable": {
                  "projectId": "project_name_obfuscated",
                  "datasetId": "project_114151_shared",
                  "tableId": "test123"
                },
            "writeDisposition": "WRITE_TRUNCATE",
            "createDisposition": "CREATE_IF_NEEDED",
            "allowLargeResults": true,
            "query": "SELECT * 
FROM (SELECT hits.page.pagePath
FROM
[project:dataset.ga_sessions_20181015] 
WHERE
REGEXP_MATCH( hits.page.pagePath, r'\?email=.*@.*\.*')),
(SELECT
hits.eventInfo.eventLabel
FROM
[project:dataset.ga_sessions_20181015] 
WHERE
hits.eventInfo.eventAction = 'end-client,role,decision')"
      }
    };

    var job = {
        "configuration": configuration
    };

    var jobResult = BigQuery.Jobs.insert(job, "project_name_obfuscated");

    var jobId = jobResult.jobReference.jobId;

    // The job might not actually be done; wait until it is marked
    // complete.
    var sleepTimeMs = 500;
    while (true) {
        Utilities.sleep(sleepTimeMs);
        sleepTimeMs *= 2;
        queryResults = BigQuery.Jobs.getQueryResults(projectId, jobId, {
          "maxResults": 10000);
        if (!queryResults.jobComplete) {
          break;
        }
    }

I've been through various tutorials and tried adding the ' + solution so the line becomes "query": ' SELECT +

But I still can't get the script to run.

Could someone possible point out where I've gone wrong?

Many thanks and kind regards!!

Answer 1

As the user TheMaster pointed out in his comment, the error comes from a badly formatted multiline string:

Well Then it's multiline. " is not terminated on line 1. Join them using \\ or + developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… Apps script isn't ES2015. So you can't use ``

So the code should look close to this:

"query": "SELECT * " +
"FROM (SELECT hits.page.pagePath " +
"FROM " +
"[project:dataset.ga_sessions_20181015] " +
"WHERE " +
"REGEXP_MATCH( hits.page.pagePath, r'\?email=.*@.*\.*')), " +
"(SELECT " +
"hits.eventInfo.eventLabel "+
"FROM " +
"[project:dataset.ga_sessions_20181015] " +
"WHERE " +
" hits.eventInfo.eventAction = 'end-client,role,decision')"