Delete List Separator

Delete (default, toggle off): the separator is removed entirely, items are concatenated with nothing between. a,b,c → abc. Useful for: merging CSV data into a single string, removing tab characters from text, stripping pipes from log entries.

Any string, single or multi-character. Examples: :: (double-colon delimited), | (pipe with surrounding spaces), --- (triple-dash, common in markdown), & , even an emoji like 🔹. Treated as a literal string, NOT a regex pattern – so . matches only a literal dot, not “any character”. For regex separators use a different tool.

Strips leading/trailing whitespace from each item before joining. Input "apple , banana , cherry" with comma separator and trim ON: split → ["apple ", " banana ", " cherry"] → trim each → ["apple", "banana", "cherry"] → join. Output without trim: apple banana cherry (double spaces preserved). Output with trim: applebananacherry (or with replace-with, cleanly delimited).

NO – and yes. The tool does a plain string split on the chosen separator. It has no awareness of quotes, brackets, or escape sequences. So "Smith, John",30 with comma separator splits to 3 parts ("Smith, John", 30) – quotes don’t protect anything. If your data has RFC 4180-style quoted CSV with embedded commas, use the sibling tool “Delete CSV Columns” which has a proper parser. This tool is for simple find-and-replace separator work.

Equal to (item count − 1) when at least one separator was found. If your input had 5 items separated by 4 commas, the stat shows 4. If no separator was found (the chosen separator doesn’t appear in the input), the stat shows 0 and output equals input.

Not directly. Run the tool twice: first remove commas, then with the output, remove newlines (or whatever else). For more complex multi-pattern needs, use a regex-based tool. Tip: if you need to normalize a list with mixed separators to a single one, run it once per separator type, all into the same replacement string.

Identity. Output equals input, stat shows 0 separators removed, no error. Useful for safe pipelines that may or may not encounter the separator.

Single string split + join – O(n) on input length. 100,000-item lists process in ~30-80 ms on a typical desktop. Large multi-megabyte inputs may take a few hundred ms due to memory allocation for the output string. No noticeable lag for normal use.

Yes. All processing happens in your browser using native string split/join. Your data never leaves your device. Download is generated in-memory and offered locally.