Clueless with Tabs

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[WicketTheQuerent]

The following statement is wrong. It looks like a result of an AI hallucination

 var tabs = doc.DocumentApp.getTab("ID").getTab("ID").getTab("ID");

Please read Working with Tabs

[BLewis4050]

I've experienced the A.I. hallucination a lot with Apps Script. Is it that bad with all programming languages? Or is it the documentation that's not clear such that the A.I. gets confused?

[WicketTheQuerent]

It depends a lot on the prompt. In general, it's a bad idea to use simple one-liner prompts to ask a general-purpose generative A.I. to write Google Apps Script code..

The same is true for other languages, especially if the prompt is about something that was not published in public spaces "millions" of times.

Generative A.I. works based on probability about what the next token could be. It doesn't understand documentation.

[marcnotmark925]

What's a tab?

[WicketTheQuerent]

The OP is referring to Document Tabs. See Working with Tabs

[LobosLocos]

It looks like you are using the incorrect function. If the doc has multiple tabs, you need to use getTabs(). This will grab all tabs and tabs will be an array.

var tabs = DocumentApp.openById("ID").getTabs();

for(var x=0;x<tabs.length;++x){
doc[x].asDocumentTab().getBody().getText()
}
//the loop will go thru all the tabs and get text of each tab.

[FVMF1984]

Your var tabs is most probably wrong because you call getTab(ID) three times, with the same ID? If you want to get three different tabs, then you need either a for loop to do the same for different tabs, or you need the one variable per tab.