Remove Punctuation
Strip all punctuation characters from text instantly, live as you type, while keeping letters, numbers, and spaces intact.
Result (updates live):
How to remove punctuation from text
Type or paste your text into the box above. Every punctuation character — periods, commas, exclamation marks, quotes, brackets, and more — is stripped out instantly, with the result updating live as you type.
Which characters count as punctuation?
This tool removes common punctuation and symbol characters, including periods, commas, exclamation marks, question marks, colons, semicolons, quotes, apostrophes, parentheses, brackets, hyphens, underscores, and symbols like @, #, and &. Letters, numbers, and spaces are always preserved.
Example
"Hello, world! How are you today? I'm doing great..." becomes "Hello world How are you today Im doing great".
Common Use Cases
- Preparing plain text for word-frequency or keyword analysis.
- Cleaning quotes and captions for use in systems that don't handle punctuation well.
- Simplifying text before tokenizing it for a script or spreadsheet.
FAQs
Does it remove spaces or line breaks too?
No — only punctuation and symbol characters are removed. Spaces, line breaks, letters, and numbers are all left in place.
Will apostrophes in contractions be removed?
Yes — apostrophes are treated as punctuation, so "I'm" becomes "Im" and "don't" becomes "dont".
Does this update as I type?
Yes — there's no button to click. The result recalculates instantly as you edit the input text.