Remove Empty Lines
Remove all blank and whitespace-only lines from text.
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FAQ
- What counts as an empty line?
- An empty line is any line that contains no characters, or only whitespace characters such as spaces and tabs. Lines with at least one non-whitespace character are kept.
- Does the tool remove lines with spaces or just truly empty lines?
- The tool removes both truly empty lines (zero characters) and whitespace-only lines (lines containing only spaces, tabs, or other whitespace). It uses the trim() function to detect whitespace-only content.
- How is this different from Remove Duplicate Lines?
- Remove Empty Lines removes all blank/whitespace-only lines regardless of their content, keeping all non-empty lines including duplicates. Remove Duplicate Lines keeps only the first occurrence of each unique line, regardless of whether lines are blank.
Remove Empty Lines strips all blank lines (including lines containing only spaces or tabs) from your text, producing a compact result with only non-empty content lines. This is useful for cleaning up copy-pasted text, reformatting code snippets, processing log files, and preparing data for further processing.