Remove Punctuation from Text Online
Strip all punctuation from text — keep only letters, numbers, and spaces.
What is Remove Punctuation?
Strips all punctuation marks from your text — periods, commas, exclamation marks, question marks, semicolons, colons, apostrophes, quotation marks, hyphens, brackets — while keeping letters, numbers, and spaces intact. Optionally preserve hyphens in compound words.
Common Use Cases
Preparing text for NLP processing, cleaning data for machine learning, removing punctuation before word frequency analysis, processing lyrics or poetry, and sanitising input for text-processing pipelines.
How It Works
Uses a Unicode-aware regex to remove all characters that are not letters, digits, or whitespace. Optional toggles for preserving hyphens and apostrophes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it remove smart quotes and em dashes?
Yes. Smart quotes (" "), en dashes (–), em dashes (—), and ellipses (…) are all removed in addition to standard ASCII punctuation.
Can I keep hyphens?
Yes. Toggle "Preserve hyphens" to keep hyphens in compound words and hyphenated terms.
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