Lists & lines

Remove Lines Containing Text

Delete complete lines when they contain an unwanted word, phrase, identifier, domain, or pattern. This focused version opens in removal mode while retaining optional case-sensitive, multiple-term, and regular-expression matching.

Focused workspace

Remove Lines Containing

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Tool settings

Before and after

Remove Lines Containing Example

Input

Keep this line
REMOVE temporary entry
Keep this too

Output

Keep this line
Keep this too

Three steps

How to use this tool

  1. Paste the text with one record per line.
  2. Enter the text or pattern identifying unwanted lines.
  3. Remove matching lines and review the remaining records.

Useful workflows

Common use cases

  • Delete comment, debug, or temporary lines.
  • Remove records containing blocked domains or statuses.
  • Clean exported data before import.

How it works

Fast text processing without an upload

The selected operations are applied in order by JavaScript running on this page. The input is not sent to the Go server and is not written to SQLite. The server provides the page, SEO content, and blog system; the browser performs the text transformation.

Questions

Remove Lines Containing FAQ

Is the matched text removed or the whole line?

The complete matching line is removed.

Can I keep matching lines instead?

Yes. Switch the filter mode to Keep matching lines.

Can matching ignore capitalization?

Yes. Case-insensitive matching is the default.