Text Column Extract
Free online text column extract tool, no installation required
About Text Column Extract
Pulls a single column out of line-based text by splitting each line on a chosen delimiter. Pick a 1-based column index and a delimiter, press Extract, and the matching field from every line is collected into the result.
How to Use
1. Paste your multi-line text into the Input box. 2. Set Column (1-based; 1 is the first field). 3. Choose a Delimiter: Space, Comma, Tab, Pipe, or Semicolon. 4. Click Extract to populate the result card. 5. Click Copy to copy the extracted column.
Delimiter Choices
Space splits on ' ', Comma on ',', Tab on a literal tab character, Pipe on '|', and Semicolon on ';'. Lines where the requested column does not exist are filtered out of the result, so the output contains only lines that had that field.
▶Is the column index 1-based or 0-based?
▶What happens to lines that don't have the requested column?
▶When does the result card appear?
▶How is the Tab delimiter handled in the dropdown?
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