Remove Empty Lines
The quickest way to remove blank lines
PicoToolkit allows you to remove all the blank lines from even a large list with just one click. Just select the right option on the toolbar above.
Key functionality:
Remove empty lines.
The simplest yet the most commonly used function, which allows you to get rid of lines without any characters.
Remove lines containing only whitespace.
You will often need to remove the lines that appear blank but contain whitespaces like space or tab. From a human perspective, there is no difference, but for the computer, it is precisely the opposite.
PicoToolkit allows you to clear whitespace from the blank lines so you can filter them out.
Just follow the procedure:
- Select Remove -> Trim spaces - To remove spaces from the ends of each line.
- Click Remove -> Empty lines - To delete all the empty lines from the list.
Chain with other tools
This function is what makes PicoToolkit so valuable. Our editor lets you apply many modifications and filters to the data you provide.
The empty lines often occur due to other modifications, for example, after removing HTML tags from the documents.
Clearing empty lines may also be the first step of further modifications. For example, after you clear blank lines, you could sort the list of add line numbers to each line.
Other useful tricks.
PicoToolkit lets you remove not only the empty lines but also filter out the lines containing certain phrases or matching a specific pattern.