Remove Line Breaks
Remove or replace line breaks in text. Join multiple lines into a single paragraph or replace line breaks with any character.
What is a Remove Line Breaks?
A line break remover strips or replaces the newline characters in text, joining multiple lines into a single continuous block or a cleanly separated list.
Unwanted line breaks are one of the most common formatting problems in day-to-day text work. PDF text extraction adds a break at every printed line. Email clients insert soft returns at 72 characters. Developers copy terminal output full of line breaks into documentation. This tool fixes all of these in seconds, with flexible options for what to replace line breaks with.
Replace line breaks with
How to Use Remove Line Breaks
- 1Paste your text (with unwanted line breaks) into the input area.
- 2Choose what to replace line breaks with: a space, nothing, a comma, or a custom character.
- 3Optionally enable 'Collapse multiple blank lines' or 'Remove all blank lines'.
- 4Click 'Remove Line Breaks' to process the text.
- 5Copy the cleaned output with the Copy button.
Features
- ✓Replace line breaks with a space, nothing, comma, or any custom character
- ✓Handles both Windows (CRLF) and Unix (LF) line endings automatically
- ✓Option to collapse multiple blank lines into one
- ✓Option to remove all blank lines entirely
- ✓Ideal for cleaning up text copied from PDFs and emails
Common Use Cases
PDF text extraction
A researcher copies 5 paragraphs from a PDF. Every line ends with a break at the 80-character print margin, creating 35 unwanted line breaks, all removed in one click.
List to comma-separated
A developer has a vertical list of 50 city names (one per line) needed as a comma-separated string for a SQL IN() clause, converted in 2 seconds.
Email chain cleanup
A PR manager pastes a quoted email reply chain into a document. 28 soft-return line breaks from the email client are replaced with spaces, producing clean readable paragraphs.