Google Sheets I am writing a macro and trying to skip down several lines of code

Question

I am rather new to Google Scripts and JavaScript. I am writing a macro in Google Sheets and I am trying to skip down several lines of code. The code I am skipping is under development and putting in all those // would be a pain and confusing later. This seems like a simple thing to do and have done it many times using Microsoft VBA. The only thing I can find in Google Scripts uses a label and a goto statement but that only seems to apply when the goto jumps to an earlier place in the macro.

I am just trying to jump down a couple of lines of code without using //.

Any help will be Greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Use a block comment to skip multiple lines permanently:

function myFunction() {
  /* 
  Browser.msgBox('This is skipped.');
  Browser.msgBox('This is skipped too.');
  */

  Browser.msgBox('This runs.');
}

Alternatively use an If statement and set a switch for debug mode. So you can switch your code execution from production mode into debug mode to run a different code.

var debugmode = true;
if (debugmode) {
  Browser.msgBox('This runs only in debug mode.');
}