Remove Empty Lines

Quickly remove all blank or empty lines from your input text using the Remove Empty Lines Tool. Choose to trim lines first, strip lines with only whitespace, or eliminate leading and trailing gaps. Import and export files easily, and view results instantly.

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Supported file types: .txt
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Options
Trim lines before check
Remove lines with spaces only
Remove leading/trailing blank lines

How to Use:

  1. Paste your text into the Input Text box.
  2. Toggle options like Trim lines, Remove spaces-only lines, or Remove leading/trailing blanks.
  3. Output is generated live in the Cleaned Output box.
  4. Click Copy Output or Export to File to use the cleaned result.
  5. Use Choose File to import a .txt file directly.

What Remove Empty Lines Tool Can Do:

This tool deletes all empty or whitespace-only lines from your text. You can choose whether to trim each line before checking, keep internal whitespace lines, or cut off leading/trailing blank lines. Works great with messy input or large documents. Everything updates live with full import/export support.

Example:

Input:

apple

banana


cherry

date

Options:

  • Trim lines: On
  • Remove lines with spaces only: On
  • Remove leading/trailing blank lines: On

Output:

apple
banana
cherry
date

Common Use Cases:

Useful for cleaning up copied text, removing layout gaps from CSV or log files, and prepping input for parsing or transformation. Helps tidy documents where spacing is inconsistent or unstructured.

Useful Tools & Suggestions:

After clearing out the blank lines, Normalize Line Breaks in Text helps make sure everything’s consistent no weird mix of Windows and Unix endings. And if you’re trying to prep the text for structure or scanning, Add Line Numbers can help you keep track of what’s where now.

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