How it works
The Line Break Remover strips newline characters from text to produce a single continuous line or a configurable output. It can replace line breaks with a space, a comma, a custom delimiter, or simply delete them entirely.
Line breaks become a problem when you need to pass multi-line text as a single-line parameter: in command-line arguments, URL query strings, JSON values, SQL WHERE clauses, or spreadsheet cells that can't contain newlines. Copying text from PDFs, documents, or web pages often introduces unwanted line breaks that need to be cleaned.
How to use it: paste your multi-line text, select the replacement character (space, comma, pipe, custom, or none), and the output consolidates into the configured format instantly. An option to "Collapse multiple spaces" prevents double-spaces at former line break positions.
Common scenarios: converting a poem or formatted address into a single-line string for a database field, stripping newlines from copied PDF text before searching or pasting, cleaning up multi-line log entries for single-line log viewers, preparing text for a CSV cell, and converting a bullet-point list to a comma-separated string.
Frequently Asked Questions
- 'Replace with space' preserves word boundaries โ 'Hello World' becomes 'Hello World'. 'Remove entirely' produces 'HelloWorld' โ all words run together, which is rarely what you want.
- Yes. The tool normalizes both Unix (LF, \n) and Windows (CRLF, \r\n) line endings. Both are replaced with the configured replacement character.
- When a line break is replaced with a space, if the line already ends with a space, you get a double space. 'Collapse multiple spaces' merges consecutive spaces into one after replacement.
- Yes. Select 'Comma' as the replacement character. You can also add quote wrapping by piping the output through the Quote Wrapper tool.