Remove Empty Lines — Clean Text Online Free

1. Paste your text into the input area. The tool accepts any plain text — code, logs, documents, data files, or anything with unwanted blank lines. Use the example button to see a demo.

2. Choose your options. By default, both truly empty lines and whitespace-only lines are removed. Uncheck “Also remove whitespace-only lines” if you only want to strip completely empty lines.

3. Review the result. The cleaned output appears instantly below the input with a count of how many lines were removed. All non-empty lines are preserved exactly as they were.

4. Copy the result. Click the Copy button to copy the cleaned text to your clipboard for pasting into documents, code editors, or anywhere else.

Empty lines accumulate in text for many reasons. Copy-pasting between applications, converting document formats, exporting from databases, or editing in multiple tools — all of these introduce unwanted blank lines. While a few blank lines are fine for readability, excessive empty lines make text harder to read, inflate file sizes, and cause issues when importing into other systems.

Cleaning up code: Source code often accumulates extra blank lines as developers add and remove blocks. Code style guides typically limit consecutive blank lines to one or two. This tool strips all blank lines at once, giving you a clean starting point for reformatting. It is especially useful before pasting code into documentation, emails, or presentation slides where space is limited.

Processing log files: Server logs, application output, and build logs often contain empty lines between entries. Removing them makes it easier to scan for errors, count entries, or pipe the output into other tools like grep or awk. Whitespace-only lines are particularly sneaky in logs — they look empty but contain spaces or tabs that trip up simple filtering.

Data cleanup: When preparing data for CSV imports, database inserts, or API payloads, empty lines can cause parsing errors or create phantom records. Stripping blank lines ensures every line in your data file represents a real record.

Document formatting: Text copied from web pages, PDFs, or rich-text editors often includes extra blank lines from layout spacing. Removing them produces clean, compact text that is ready for repurposing in any context.

This tool processes everything locally in your browser. No data is uploaded, no account is required, and there are no limits on text length. Paste, clean, copy, done.