Remove Before/After
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How to Use the Remove Text Before/After
Follow these steps to use the remove text before/after quickly and get the right result.
Paste Your Text
Paste your text into the input.
Enter the Pattern
Enter the delimiter character (e.g. ':', '=', '-').
Choose Options
Choose 'Remove before' or 'Remove after'.
Step 4
The trimmed lines appear in the output.
Learn when to use the Remove Text Before/After and how to get better results.
Quick guidance, practical use cases, and answers to the most common questions users have about this tool.
About the Remove Text Before/After
On every line, remove everything before a specified character or string, or everything after it. Useful for extracting the relevant part of structured lines such as log entries, key-value pairs, or delimited data.
How to Use the Remove Text Before/After
- 1Paste your text into the input.
- 2Enter the delimiter character (e.g. ':', '=', '-').
- 3Choose 'Remove before' or 'Remove after'.
- 4The trimmed lines appear in the output.
Common Use Cases
- +Extract values from 'key: value' pairs by removing 'key: '
- +Remove timestamps from the start of log lines
- +Strip file paths leaving only the filename
- +Clean up CSV lines by removing a leading column
Why This Tool Helps
Use it to clean up repetitive text work faster, avoid formatting mistakes, and get a result you can copy straight into your next document, app, or workflow.
Frequently Asked Questions
What if the delimiter appears multiple times on a line?
By default it matches the first occurrence. You can choose to match the last occurrence instead.
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