Remove Line Breaks
Remove line breaks and join text into a single line or paragraph. Replace newlines with spaces, commas, or nothing.
What is Remove Line Breaks?
A line break remover joins multiple lines of text into a single continuous paragraph by replacing newline characters (\n, \r\n) with spaces or removing them entirely. This is commonly needed when copying text from PDFs (which insert line breaks at visual line endings), email clients (which wrap text at 72-80 characters), terminal output, or code editors. The result is clean, flowing text suitable for word processors, web content, social media posts, or any context where unwanted line breaks disrupt readability.
How It Works
The tool identifies all types of line break characters — Unix (\n), Windows (\r\n), and legacy Mac (\r) — and replaces them based on your preference. You can replace breaks with a single space (joining lines into paragraphs), remove them entirely (concatenating lines), or replace with a custom separator. It also handles multiple consecutive line breaks (paragraph separators) differently from single breaks if desired, preserving intentional paragraph structure while removing line-wrapping artifacts.
Common Use Cases
- •Cleaning text copied from PDF files that has line breaks at the end of each visual line
- •Joining wrapped email text back into flowing paragraphs after copying from email clients
- •Preparing text for social media posts where line breaks waste character count
- •Converting code comments into single-line documentation strings
- •Cleaning terminal output or log entries for use in reports and documentation
- •Reformatting text for use in systems that don't support multi-line input fields
Frequently Asked Questions
What separators can I use?▼
Space, nothing (join directly), comma + space, or semicolon.
Why does text copied from a PDF have a line break on every line?▼
PDFs store text positioned line by line rather than as flowing paragraphs, so copying inserts a break wherever the visual line ended. Replacing single breaks with a space rejoins the sentences, and keeping double breaks preserves the real paragraph divisions.
How do I keep paragraphs but remove the line wrapping inside them?▼
Choose the option that treats a single newline as a wrap (replaced with a space) and a blank line as a paragraph break (preserved). This is the setting you want for text copied out of email clients, which hard-wrap at roughly 72 to 80 characters.
What is the difference between CRLF, LF, and CR line endings?▼
Windows ends lines with a carriage return plus line feed (`\r\n`), Unix, Linux and modern macOS use a line feed alone (`\n`), and classic Mac OS through version 9 used a carriage return alone (`\r`). Mixed endings are what cause stray `^M` characters and "no newline at end of file" warnings. This tool recognises all three.
Should breaks be replaced with a space or removed entirely?▼
Use a space for prose, otherwise the last word of one line runs into the first word of the next. Remove entirely when rejoining something that was split mid-token, such as a long Base64 string, a JWT, or a certificate body.
Will this fix a CSV that has broken across lines?▼
Only if the breaks are unwanted wrapping. Be careful: a valid CSV may contain genuine newlines inside quoted fields, and removing those changes the data. Check the result in the CSV to JSON tool to confirm the row and column counts still look right.
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