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Remove Line Breaks

Strip or replace line breaks and extra whitespace in text. Free, instant, private.

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Tool

Input text

Keep paragraph breaks (double newlines) Collapse multiple spaces Trim each line first

Replace line breaks with

Characters before

Characters after

Removed

Result

What Causes Unwanted Line Breaks?

Line breaks appear in the wrong place for several distinct reasons, each requiring the same fix — removing them before re-using the text elsewhere:

PDF copy-paste — PDFs store text as printed lines, not paragraphs. Each line ends with a hard return at the column width of the original page. When you copy from a PDF, every line break comes along, breaking words mid-sentence.
Email clients — Older email standards (RFC 2822) require lines to be at most 998 characters and recommend wrapping at 76–80 characters. Plain-text emails arrive with line breaks at every 76th character, turning one paragraph into dozens of short lines.
Chat and messaging exports — WhatsApp, Slack, Teams and Discord exports write one message per line. A conversation exported as a transcript fragments the content at every reply.
Word processors — Copying from Google Docs or Microsoft Word into a plain-text field sometimes carries soft returns that are invisible in the source but appear as hard breaks when pasted.
Code output / terminal — Command-line tools often print one item per line. To reuse those values in SQL, code or a spreadsheet you need to collapse them to a comma-separated list.

Common Use Cases

Scenario	What to Set
Clean up a copied PDF paragraph	Keep paragraphs ON, replace with space
Convert a list to SQL IN() values	Keep paragraphs OFF, replace with `,`
Paste clean text into a form field	Keep paragraphs ON, collapse spaces ON
Join lines with no separator	Keep paragraphs OFF, replace with nothing
Convert line-separated data to pipe-delimited	Keep paragraphs OFF, replace with `\|`

Options Reference

Option	What it does
Keep paragraph breaks	Removes only single newlines; double newlines (paragraph gaps) are preserved as paragraph separators
Collapse multiple spaces	Merges two or more consecutive spaces, including tabs, into a single space
Trim each line	Strips leading and trailing spaces from every line before processing — removes padding from PDF columns
Replace breaks with	Substitute removed breaks with any string — space, comma, pipe, or leave empty to join with no separator

'Does it handle tabs and multiple spaces?', 'a' => 'Yes. Enable Collapse multiple spaces to merge tabs, multiple spaces and other repeated whitespace into a single space. Useful when PDF copy-paste also adds column-alignment spaces between words.'], ['q' => 'How do I convert a list of items into a SQL IN() clause?', 'a' => 'Paste your list, uncheck Keep paragraph breaks, and set Replace line breaks with to ", " (comma space). The result is a comma-separated string you can paste directly inside SQL IN().'], ]" />