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Remove punctuation

Strip all punctuation marks from your text.

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Remove repeated charactersCollapse runs of the same character into one (helllo → helo).Remove accentsStrip accents and diacritics from text, turning é into e and ü into u.Remove blank linesDelete all empty or whitespace-only lines from your text.Remove duplicate linesDelete repeated lines while keeping the original order of the first occurrences.Remove duplicate wordsKeep only the first occurrence of each word in your text.Remove emojisStrip all emojis and pictographs from your text.Remove extra spacesCollapse repeated spaces and trim each line to clean up messy text.Remove line breaksStrip or replace line breaks to turn multi-line text into one line.

Open Remove punctuation and you get an answer straight away, with no account to create. Its place is under Transform & clean; Remove repeated characters and Remove accents answer the questions closest to this one.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What does Remove punctuation do?

Strip all punctuation marks from your text.

When would I actually use this?

Cleaning up a paste before it goes anywhere: stripping duplicates from a list, normalising case, removing accents for a filename, or sorting lines.

What is the most common mistake?

Sorting text as if it were ASCII. Accented letters land after Z in a byte sort, which puts "Zurich" before "Émile" and produces a list no reader will accept.

How is Remove punctuation different from Remove repeated characters?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Remove repeated characters is the one to open when you need it to collapse runs of the same character into one (helllo → helo). Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Remove accents is the closest one after this: Strip accents and diacritics from text, turning é into e and ü into u.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Remove blank lines and Remove duplicate lines — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Transformations use the browser's Unicode-aware string handling, so case changes and sorting respect the locale rather than byte order. Nothing is truncated: what comes out is the whole of what went in.

Further reading

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ExplainerWhat a Palindrome Checker Has to Decide Before It Can AnswerCase, whitespace, punctuation and diacritics: four policies, six real sentences, and the answer changes with each one. Then the harder half — reversing a string is itself undefined, and code-unit reversal breaks emoji and detaches accents, demonstrated in Node.How-toCleaning Messy Text: The Order of Operations That Actually MattersStrip tags before decoding entities, trim before deduplicating, collapse whitespace last. Three orderings run in Node, a nine-step pipeline in the right sequence, and the invisible characters — U+00A0, U+200B, U+FEFF — that survive every naive cleanup.ExplainerDetecting the Language of a Text, and Why Short Texts FailMeasured, not asserted: 90 short real phrases across six languages, none declined and 68 right — 76%, falling to 64% under sixteen letters. Four of the wrong answers came back at 100% confidence.ExplainerSentence Case and Title Case: The Rules Differ by LanguageEnglish title case has three different cutoffs depending on the style guide. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian have none at all. German capitalises every noun. The tool knows about none of this — here is exactly what it does.How-toFiltering Lines by a Pattern Without a Command LineThis is grep for people who do not use grep, with one important difference: the match is a plain substring, so a real regular expression returns an empty box and no error. Every claim here was checked by running the tool.ExplainerFinding Duplicates in a List Without a SpreadsheetTwo lines that look identical are often not identical. Case, a trailing space, a no-break space and two different encodings of the same accented letter were each run through the duplicate finder, and it reported no duplicates for three of the four.