Text Editing & Formatting

Clean Lines

Trim lines and remove empty ones from selected text.

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Overview

What Clean Lines does

Removes blank lines and trims surrounding whitespace while preserving the order of the remaining lines.

CategoryText Editing & Formatting
Action typeJavaScript
ResultReplace or copy text
InternetNot required

Example

Action and outcome

Clean Lines example
ActionOutcome
Clean LinesSelected text: Prepare launch checklist Confirm pricing slidePrepare launch checklist Confirm pricing slide

Workflow

Use Clean Lines

Follow these steps to trim lines and remove empty ones from selected text with ActionClip.

  1. Select the text you want to use.
  2. Choose Clean Lines from ActionClip.
  3. Review the result, then replace the selection or copy the new text.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

  • Before you start: No setup required.
  • Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action configuration

The definition below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

JavaScript definition
function run(selected_text) {
  return selected_text
    .split(/\r\n?|\n/)
    .map((line) => line.trim())
    .filter((line) => line.length > 0)
    .join("\n");
}