Whitespace Analyzer

Analyze whitespace in your text to find spaces, tabs, line breaks, carriage returns, and identify formatting issues like trailing spaces and empty lines.

What is Whitespace Analyzer?

The Whitespace Analyzer examines your text and provides detailed statistics about all types of whitespace characters: spaces, tabs, line breaks (\n), carriage returns (\r), double spaces, trailing spaces at the end of lines, leading spaces at the beginning of lines, and empty lines.

This tool is essential for code review, data cleaning, and identifying formatting inconsistencies that are invisible to the naked eye.

What it Detects

• Spaces: Regular space characters ( )
• Tabs: Tab characters (\t)
• Line Breaks: Newline characters (\n)
• Carriage Returns: Windows-style line endings (\r)
• Double Spaces: Two or more consecutive spaces
• Trailing Spaces: Spaces at the end of lines
• Leading Spaces: Spaces at the beginning of lines
• Empty Lines: Lines containing only whitespace

Use Cases

• Code review and formatting cleanup
• CSV/TSV data validation
• Text file normalization
• Markdown formatting issues
• Git diff conflicts caused by whitespace
• Database import data cleaning

Common Whitespace Issues

• Trailing spaces: Can cause version control issues
• Mixed tabs/spaces: Leads to indentation problems
• Multiple empty lines: Reduces code readability
• Windows vs Unix line endings: Cross-platform compatibility
• Double spaces: Accidental typos in text

Recommended Tools

After analyzing whitespace issues, use our other tools to fix them:

• Normalize Line Breaks - Convert \r\n to \n
• Remove Empty Lines - Clean up blank lines
• Find & Replace - Remove trailing/leading spaces