Remove or replace line breaks in text
Remove or replace line breaks in text
Remove all line breaks joins every line together with nothing between them. Replace with spaces joins lines with a single space, which suits prose copied from PDFs. Replace with custom text lets you type any separator, such as a comma or the pipe character, and the replacement field appears only when that mode is selected.
When your text has real paragraph structure. Blocks separated by a blank line are treated as paragraphs: line breaks inside each paragraph are removed or replaced as chosen, while the blank lines between paragraphs are kept, so the output stays readable instead of becoming one wall of text.
The Trim extra spaces option, on by default, collapses every run of whitespace, including the blank lines between paragraphs, into a single space. If you need paragraph breaks in the output, uncheck Trim extra spaces; otherwise it wins over paragraph preservation.
Original Lines counts the lines in your input and Processed Lines counts the lines in the result, so you can verify the effect at a glance, for example one line left after full removal. You can also press Ctrl plus Enter (Command plus Enter on Mac) to process without clicking the button.
No. All processing happens in JavaScript on this page and the result is offered straight back to you via the copy button. Nothing is transmitted or retained.