Format a Google Sheets cell in plaintext via Apps Script

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The other answer, to set the format to ‘plain text’ in javascript, doesn’t work. However, this does:

sheet.getRange(1,n).setNumberFormat('@STRING@');

So the magic value for formatting text programmatically is ‘@STRING@’!

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