Remove Punctuation from Text
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Strip punctuation marks from text while keeping letters and numbers.
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Examples
Hello, world! How are you?
Hello world How are you
It's a test--really!
Its a test really
Price: $19.99 (sale)
Price 1999 sale
"Quoted text"
Quoted text
Why Use This Tool?
What problems does this solve?
Text analysis and certain processing tasks require punctuation-free text. Manually removing punctuation is tedious and inconsistent.
Common use cases:
- Preparing text for natural language processing
- Creating clean word lists from text
- Analyzing text content without punctuation noise
Who benefits from this tool?
Data scientists preparing NLP datasets. Linguists analyzing text patterns. Students creating word lists. Anyone needing punctuation-free text.
Privacy first: All processing happens in your browser. Your text never leaves your device.
Frequently Asked Questions
By default: periods, commas, exclamation marks, question marks, colons, semicolons, quotation marks (single and double), apostrophes, hyphens, dashes, parentheses, brackets, and other standard punctuation. Numbers and letters are preserved.
Yes, enable the option to preserve apostrophes. This keeps "don't" as "don't" rather than "dont". Useful when contractions are important for readability or accurate representation of the original text.
By default, a single space remains where punctuation was removed. "Hello, world" becomes "Hello world". Options allow collapsing multiple spaces or trimming around removed punctuation based on your needs.
Symbols like $, %, +, and = can be configured as punctuation to remove or symbols to keep. The default removes them, but if your text is financial or mathematical, you may want to preserve these meaningful symbols.
Yes, the tool handles Unicode punctuation from various languages and writing systems. French guillemets, Spanish inverted marks, and other non-ASCII punctuation are identified and removed appropriately.
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