Zeta Centauri: Newline Removal Utility

The newline removal utility is a program that lets you remove all of the newline and return characters from a piece of text. It exists because I had a simple task that was very annoying to complete -- pasting XML documents (that had newlines) into a database column in SQL Server Management Studio (which doesn't accept text with newlines).

Rather than manually remove tens of dozens of newlines from dozens of files, I spent a rather short amount of time to write this utility. To date it has saved about a dozen hours more than it took to develop. It's being shared here in the hope that it will be useful to others.

Usage is very simple -- just paste the text you want to remove newlines from into the top window and click "remove newlines". You can click the "copy ouput to clipboard" button to copy the text to the clipboard for easy pasting into other applications.

You can also "sort of" reverse the process. Clicking "reverse" will insert a newline after every closing XML (greater-than-symbol) in the text in the output window and copy it to the input window. This can make XML that shows up on a single line far more readable. It's not perfect, but it can help. The "copy input to clipboard" will let you easily select and copy the text in the input window so you can use it elsewhere.

The "clear" button clears the text in both the input and output windows.

The newline removal utility is freeware, but we welcome donations if you find the program useful or just want to encourage us to create more free software.