Remove duplicate lines, empty lines and extra whitespace, sort lines, remove duplicate CSV rows, select columns, and convert CSV to JSON Browser only in one place.
Text cleanup can be destructive when duplicate removal, sorting, trimming, or CSV parsing changes meaningful order or whitespace. Treat cleanup as a transformation pipeline: identify what is noise, preview the output, and preserve the original before applying multiple rules.
Plain-text operations work on lines, while CSV operations must respect delimiters, quoted fields, headers, and columns. A comma inside a quoted CSV field is data, not a separator, so use the CSV mode when structure matters.
Removing duplicate lines compares whole normalized lines. CSV duplicate removal may compare complete rows depending on the selected options. If you need deduplication by one business key only, export or transform carefully and verify which columns participate.
Alphabetical sorting is useful for lists, but it can destroy chronological, priority, or dependency order. Clean whitespace and duplicates first, then sort only when row order is genuinely irrelevant.