Character Remover

Remove every occurrence of specific characters from your text

Input text

Result

Nothing you enter here is ever sent anywhere — every character is removed locally in your browser.

About this tool

This tool deletes every instance of the characters you list, wherever they appear in your text, in a single pass. Type any set of characters into the "Characters to remove" field — letters, digits, punctuation, or symbols — and each one found anywhere in the input is stripped out, with no effect on characters you didn't list. It's useful for cleaning pasted data that's full of stray symbols, quote marks, or formatting artifacts you don't need.

Does it remove a sequence of characters, or each character individually?

Each character individually. If you enter "abc", every "a", every "b", and every "c" is removed wherever it occurs — it does not look for the exact substring "abc".

Is character removal case-sensitive?

Yes. "A" and "a" are treated as different characters, so add both cases to the list if you want a letter removed regardless of case.

Can I remove a space or a line break?

Yes — typing a space character into the field removes every space in the text. Removing line breaks isn't supported this way since they can't easily be typed into a single-line field; use a dedicated line-break tool for that instead.

Taking out characters you don't want

List the characters you want gone in the small field, paste your text in the big one, and the cleaned version appears on the right. Every occurrence of each listed character is removed, wherever it sits in the text.

It's handy when a dump from a spreadsheet or a scraped page is full of quotes, asterisks or pipes you don't need, or when you're stripping punctuation before counting words. You can list as many characters as you like in one go, with no separators between them.

Only the characters you list are touched. Letters, numbers and spaces you didn't mention stay exactly as they were.

A quick example

Before
Hello, World! It's 9 o'clock.
(remove:  !,' )
After
Hello World Its 9 oclock.

Good to know

The apostrophe counts as a character too, which is why "It's" became "Its" above. If that's not what you want, leave it out of the list.