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Remove Empty Lines

Strip blank lines and tidy stray whitespace from pasted text.Text Tools

Remove Empty Lines

Strip blank lines from text, with optional trimming of surrounding whitespace on every line.

Output0 empty lines removed

About this tool

Copied output from terminals, PDFs and emails is full of blank lines. This tool drops them, counts how many were removed, and can trim each line's stray leading and trailing spaces at the same time.

How to use the Remove Empty Lines tool

  1. Paste your text. Any text with blank lines you want gone.
  2. Set the options. Trim whitespace around lines, or collapse repeated internal spaces.
  3. Copy the result. The removed-line count shows exactly what changed.

Supported formats

Input

  • Plain text

Output

  • Text without empty lines
  • Count of removed lines

Inputs are validated before anything is processed. Invalid values and unsupported files are rejected with a clear error instead of failing silently.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as an empty line?

Any line that is empty after ignoring whitespace, so lines containing only spaces are removed too.

Can I keep single blank lines between paragraphs?

Not in this tool. It removes all empty lines; paste the result back with your own paragraph breaks if needed.

Does it change the words themselves?

Only if you enable trimming or collapsing; otherwise non-empty lines are byte-identical.

Is my text stored anywhere?

No. Everything happens in the tab.

Privacy

Everything you enter stays in this browser tab. There is no upload endpoint for tool inputs, no account, and no server-side copy of your text or files. Results are produced locally and disappear when you close the page.

No account is required and no file is ever uploaded. See the privacy policy for details about analytics and the limited data this site stores.

Known limitations

  • All empty lines are removed; keeping paragraph spacing is not offered.
  • Internal whitespace collapsing is a simple space-replacement, not a typography-aware normaliser.
  • Line endings are normalised to the platform's \n on output.

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