Text Trimmer
Trim leading and trailing whitespace from each line, collapse repeated spaces, strip trailing spaces, and normalize blank lines.
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How to use
- Paste your text. Works with paragraphs, lists, code snippets, or exports.
- Choose cleanup options. Trim lines, collapse spaces, or remove extra blank lines.
- Copy the cleaned result. Use the normalized text wherever you need it.
Common use cases
- Cleaning pasted content from docs or emails
- Removing messy whitespace before diffing
- Tidying exported lists before reuse
- Normalizing log lines before grepping or counting
Frequently asked questions
- What does each trim mode do?
- Both Ends strips whitespace from the start and end of each line (the most common case). Left Only strips only leading whitespace. Right Only strips only trailing whitespace. All Whitespace collapses every space, tab, and newline into a single space, useful when you need a single-line normalization.
- How is "Trim each line" different from "Both Ends"?
- Both Ends works on the entire pasted text as one block. Trim each line treats every newline-separated line as its own unit and strips its leading and trailing whitespace independently. Use "Trim each line" for multi-line input and "Both Ends" for a single value with surrounding whitespace.
- What does Normalize spaces do?
- It collapses any run of multiple consecutive spaces or tabs into a single space within each line. Useful for cleaning up tabular data where columns were padded with spaces, or for normalizing copied prose with double spaces between sentences.
- What about Remove empty lines?
- It strips lines that are empty or contain only whitespace, compacting the result. Combine with the other options to fully de-noise messy multi-line input.
- Will line endings (CR LF vs LF) be normalized?
- Yes. Carriage returns are removed so the output uses Unix-style LF line endings, which is what most modern tools and version control systems expect.
- Does this run in the browser?
- Yes. Cleaning is local; nothing is sent to a server.
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How to use
- Paste your text. Works with paragraphs, lists, code snippets, or exports.
- Choose cleanup options. Trim lines, collapse spaces, or remove extra blank lines.
- Copy the cleaned result. Use the normalized text wherever you need it.
Common use cases
- Cleaning pasted content from docs or emails
- Removing messy whitespace before diffing
- Tidying exported lists before reuse
- Normalizing log lines before grepping or counting
Frequently asked questions
- What does each trim mode do?
- Both Ends strips whitespace from the start and end of each line (the most common case). Left Only strips only leading whitespace. Right Only strips only trailing whitespace. All Whitespace collapses every space, tab, and newline into a single space, useful when you need a single-line normalization.
- How is "Trim each line" different from "Both Ends"?
- Both Ends works on the entire pasted text as one block. Trim each line treats every newline-separated line as its own unit and strips its leading and trailing whitespace independently. Use "Trim each line" for multi-line input and "Both Ends" for a single value with surrounding whitespace.
- What does Normalize spaces do?
- It collapses any run of multiple consecutive spaces or tabs into a single space within each line. Useful for cleaning up tabular data where columns were padded with spaces, or for normalizing copied prose with double spaces between sentences.
- What about Remove empty lines?
- It strips lines that are empty or contain only whitespace, compacting the result. Combine with the other options to fully de-noise messy multi-line input.
- Will line endings (CR LF vs LF) be normalized?
- Yes. Carriage returns are removed so the output uses Unix-style LF line endings, which is what most modern tools and version control systems expect.
- Does this run in the browser?
- Yes. Cleaning is local; nothing is sent to a server.