Remove Line Breaks
This tool removes the hard line breaks that email clients, PDF exports, plain-text files and old terminals leave in the middle of paragraphs. Text wrapped at 72 characters looks fine in the program that wrapped it and looks broken everywhere else — pasted into a document, a form or a chat message, the breaks stay put and the paragraph refuses to reflow. Each break becomes a single space by default, restoring the paragraph to one continuous run that wraps naturally wherever it lands. Blank lines between paragraphs can be preserved or dropped, and you can use a different separator when the lines should run straight together.
How it works
Removes the hard line breaks that email clients, PDF exports and old terminals leave in the middle of paragraphs, so the text reflows properly wherever you paste it next.
Each break becomes a single space by default. Set the separator to something else — or leave it empty — when the lines should run straight together instead.
Everything runs in your browser — nothing you paste is sent to a server.
0 characters on one line.
Why hard wrapping travels badly
Soft wrapping is a display decision: the program breaks lines to fit the window and rebreaks them when the window changes. Hard wrapping puts real newline characters into the text, which means the breaks are part of the content and follow it everywhere.
That is fine in a fixed-width terminal and wrong almost everywhere else. Paste a 72-character-wrapped paragraph into a wide document and you get a narrow ragged column that will not reflow.
Keeping paragraphs apart
A blank line between paragraphs is the only signal that one has ended. Leave "Skip blank lines" off and those blanks survive, so the result is a series of unwrapped paragraphs rather than one enormous run of text.
Common use cases
- Rescuing text copied out of a PDF, where every visual line is a separate break.
- Reflowing a plain-text email before quoting it somewhere else.
- Pasting terminal output into a document without the ragged edge.
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove line breaks?
Paste the wrapped text into the left panel. The unwrapped version appears on the right, with each break replaced by a space.
Where does hard-wrapped text come from?
Email clients, plain-text files, PDF exports and terminal output all wrap at a fixed width. Those breaks are stored in the text, so they follow it everywhere it is pasted.
Can I join the lines with no space at all?
Yes. Clear the separator field and the lines run straight together, which suits text broken mid-word.
How do I keep the paragraph separation?
Untick "Skip blank lines" and blank lines are preserved as empty entries, marking where each paragraph ended.
What is the difference from the multiline-to-single-line tool?
This one is for unwrapping prose so it reads properly. That one is for turning a column of values into a delimited list, with optional quoting around each item.
Is my text uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser.
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