Delimited output

apple, banana, mango, banana

Rows used

4

Output characters

28

About the Column to CSV Converter

This tool takes a list you've pasted one item per line — a spreadsheet column, a list of tags, a set of IDs from a query result — and joins it into a single delimited string. It's the kind of small, repetitive step that's annoying to do by hand every time you need to build a SQL IN clause, a CSV row, or a comma-separated list for a config file, so this page does it for you in one pass.

Things you can do here

  • •Pick a delimiter — join values with a comma, semicolon, pipe, tab, space, or newline.
  • •Trim whitespace — strip stray leading and trailing spaces from every line before joining.
  • •Remove empty rows — drop blank lines left over from copy-pasting.
  • •Remove duplicates — keep only the first occurrence of each value, in its original order.
  • •Wrap values in quotes — quote each entry, escaping any quotes already inside it.
  • •Copy & Download — grab the joined string from the clipboard or save it as a text file, and see the row and character counts as you go.