Remove Special Characters from Text
The Remove Special Characters from Text tool gets rid of any symbol or character that are not included in the standard alphanumeric set of letters and numbers. This means that anything that is not a number or not found in the alphabet, it's treated as a special character.
What are special characters?
As mentioned, anything that is not part of the standard alphanumeric set is a special character.
However, saying that we'll go through each and every special character, try to match them if they are found in the text, then remove them completely is a very tedious task.
Instead, since we'll maintain the letters and numbers, we'll just match it if it's a letter or a number, the tool will not remove it.
Then of course, if you want to have a more refined specification, example, you just want to remove mathematical symbols, or punctuation marks, we'll create these tools on this website.
On this tool, we'll implement customizable special character matches where you can select what type of special characters to be removed. Just select them on the options section.
One this is for sure, there's an input field below that you can enter special characters that you want to be removed.
🚀 How to use the Remove Special Characters tool?
The tool performs a not so complicated operation, it is made just to remove special characters. For this reason, you'll only have one input field where you can enter your text, an output area to display the result, and options to curate your result. Here's a guide on the tool's proper usage:
📋 Paste Your Text Content
The text area labeled with ✍🏻 Text Input field is the only part of the tool where you can enter your text content. Copy your text and paste it in here.
For example:
Thank you for using the tool!.
It will remove special characters like @, #, %, ^, & !
Use it now while it is free, soon this site will be $4.99 dollars per month.
🚀 Submit It
After pasting your text, just click on the yellow button marked with Submit. There result will be displayed beside your text content, it is another text area marked with 📑 Text Without Special Characters. By placing them side by side, it makes comparison a little easier.
If you clicked on the 📋 Copy button and pasted it on the ✍🏻 Text Input field, you'll notice on the output field that the punctuation marks and currency symbols are gone. That's how this tool works.
🔍 Explore Exclusions
Below the Submit and Clear buttons, you'll notice that there's two Inclusion Options. The first one is where you can add specific characters NOT be removed. Say you want to include dot(.) or question mark (?), type them and just press the enter key.
Moreover, on the second group, you can turn on pre-made inclusion groups, you want to include Currency Symbols? Just turn it on.
🛠️ Copy and Clear
After you reviewed the output, you can copy them by clicking on the copy button. If you want to do more tasks like this, just click on the Clear button to reset the text areas.
⚙️ Form Components
Technically, there is only one input field where you can enter your text content; one field to display the result, trigger buttons as well as additional options to format your content a little more. Let's explore each:
✍🏻 Text Input
This is the only part of the form where you can enter your text content. It strictly accepts only text-based content.
📑 Text Without Special Characters
Placed beside the ✍🏻 Text Input field, this serves as the output area. It makes the comparison between the original text input and the output a little bit easier.
Submit and Clear
The trigger of the process is the Submit button. Also, by clicking on Clear button, it will trigger a deletion of the input and output text area contents.
⚙️ Include Specific Characters
The Include Specific Characters option allows you to enter the characters that you DO NOT want to be removed. Just type them in the input field and press enter, every time you press enter, it will be added to the inclusion or exception list.
You can definitely delete the one's you don't like by clicking on the close button next to it. By doing this, you can have more control on how to clean up your text with special characters.
⚙️ Include Character Groups
These inclusions provide you with ready-made characters NOT to be removed. Say you don't want dollar ($) sign and currencies to be removed, just turn on this feature. Other features are available as well, just explore one by one.
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