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Remove Carriage Return
Strip (carriage return) characters from text, effectively converting Windows-style CRLF line endings to Unix-style LF.
How to Use Remove Carriage Return
- 1Paste your text (e.g. from a Windows file)
- 2Click Convert
- 3Copy the result with carriage-return characters removed
Frequently Asked Questions
Every
(carriage return, U+000D) character — since Windows text files use
for line breaks and Unix/Mac files use just
, stripping
effectively converts CRLF line endings to LF while leaving the
line breaks themselves intact.
Some tools, version control systems, or Unix-based scripts are sensitive to line-ending style and expect LF-only files — pasting Windows-originated text elsewhere can introduce unwanted
characters that this tool removes.
No — only
characters are removed; the
characters that actually create line breaks are untouched, so your line structure is preserved.
No — the removal happens entirely in your browser.
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