Line Break / Newline Remover & Joiner

Turning separate lines into one continuous string

'first idea / second idea / third idea' (3 lines) joins with a space into 'first idea second idea third idea' -- the line breaks disappear, replaced by whatever join character or string you select.

Choosing 'space' as the join method produces a natural-reading sentence-like flow, but other join options (comma, or a custom separator) serve different purposes -- comma-joining is useful for turning a list into a format suitable for a CSV cell or a comma-separated tag list, for example.

This is the reverse operation of splitting text into lines -- if you have a paragraph and want to break it into separate lines at each sentence or phrase, that's a different transformation this joiner doesn't perform; it only combines existing separate lines into one.

What happens with irregular input

Blank lines are skipped. Use the existing duplicate-line tool if you need uniqueness first. A blank line in the middle of your input is simply skipped rather than being joined in as an empty segment (which would otherwise produce an awkward double-space or double-comma in the output) -- this keeps the joined result clean even from a list with stray blank lines.

This tool doesn't remove duplicate lines before joining -- if your source list has the same line repeated, that repeated content will appear multiple times in the joined output, exactly as it appeared in the source.

The 3-parts-joined count confirms exactly how many non-blank lines were combined -- useful as a quick sanity check that no lines were unexpectedly dropped or that a blank line wasn't miscounted as content.

Related line and list manipulation tools

For the reverse direction -- sorting a list of separate lines rather than joining them -- the Alphabetical Line Sorter handles that.

If extra spacing or inconsistent whitespace is the actual problem in your text rather than needing to join lines, the Whitespace / Extra Space Cleaner addresses that directly.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)