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Text Indent and Dedent
Add, remove or normalize leading indentation with explicit ASCII tab stops.
Pasted text, One UTF-8 text file
indented.txt, indentation-report.json
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Runs locally in your browser. Your files, pasted content and generated output are not uploaded. Reset clears this tool’s working data.
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How to use this tool
- Paste the admitted text or choose one UTF-8 source file. A selected file takes precedence.
- Choose the explicit operation and options, then inspect the stated conventions and limits.
- Select Adjust indentation and download indented.txt, indentation-report.json.
Examples
Removing two columns from lines beginning with two spaces leaves their following content intact.
Limitations
- At most 200,000 UTF-16 units / 800,000 UTF-8 bytes; 50,000 logical lines and 65,536 units per line; at most 5 MiB complete combined output and 30 seconds. A selected valid UTF-8 file takes precedence over paste. File BOM and original CR/LF spans are preserved for reporting; native textarea input can normalize newlines.
- Tab width 1–16; adjustment 0–256 columns. Only leading ASCII indentation is processed; tabs in the remaining content are preserved.
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