Text Editing & Formatting

Clean Lines

Trim lines and remove empty ones from selected text.

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Overview

What Clean Lines does

Handles standard and rich-text line breaks, trims surrounding whitespace, and removes blank lines while preserving the order of the remaining lines.

CategoryText Editing & Formatting
Action typeJavaScript
Default resultReplace selected text by default
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. In editable text, ActionClip replaces the selection immediately. In read-only text, it opens the result for review and copying.

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 script

The script 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\r\u000B\u000C\u0085\u2028\u2029]/)
    .map((line) => line.trim())
    .filter((line) => line.length > 0)
    .join("\n");
}