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Truncate Lines

Keep or remove first N lines

By Craftisle Team

About Truncate Lines — Free Online Tool

Truncate lines in text. Keep first N lines or remove first N lines. Useful for extracting headers, removing introductions, and processing text in batches. Optionally preserve or remove empty lines.

How to Use Truncate Lines — Step by Step

  1. Paste your text

    Type or paste text with multiple lines.

  2. Choose mode

    Select 'Keep first N lines' or 'Remove first N lines'.

  3. Set number of lines

    Enter how many lines to keep or remove.

  4. Truncate

    Click Truncate. The truncated text appears in output.

Use Cases for Truncate Lines

Extract headers

Keep first line of CSV/text files as headers.

Remove introductions

Remove first N lines (introduction) from text.

Process in batches

Extract first N lines for batch processing.

FAQ — Truncate Lines Free Online Tool

What does 'Keep first N lines' mean?

Only the first N lines are kept. The rest are removed.

What does 'Remove first N lines' mean?

The first N lines are removed. The rest are kept.

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