Remove Empty Lines
Strip blank lines from text instantly. Toggle whether to also remove lines that contain only spaces and tabs — useful for cleaning up copied code, log files and copy that picked up stray whitespace from a PDF.
How to use
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Paste your text
Drop a block of text with blank lines scattered through it.
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Pick the strictness
Turn on Also strip lines that are only whitespace to remove lines that contain only spaces and tabs. Turn it off to keep those and remove only truly empty lines.
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Remove empty lines
Click the button. The before/after counters show how many lines were stripped.
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Copy or save
Use Copy to put the result on your clipboard, or Save to download no-blank-lines.txt.
Common use cases
- Tidy code copied from a web page that picked up stray blank lines.
- Compress a log file by removing blank lines between entries.
- Prepare CSV data for import by stripping blank rows that break parsers.
- Clean a transcript exported from a subtitle tool before reformatting.
Limitations
- Paragraph breaks (one blank line between paragraphs) are removed too. To preserve paragraph structure, run the tool on each paragraph separately.
- Trailing whitespace inside a non-blank line is not removed — use Remove Extra Spaces for that.
- Inputs larger than 1 MB are flagged but still processed on the main thread.
Frequently asked questions
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