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Text to Columns:Split Pasted Text into a CSV Grid

Turn comma, tab, semicolon, pipe, or space-separated text into a proper CSV. Auto-detection picks the delimiter for you, and every character stays in your browser.

01 · How it works

Three steps, then done.

Paste a block of delimited text, pick how it is separated, and get a clean CSV grid back. The tool reads each line as a row and splits it into columns.

1

Paste your text

Drop in any block of delimited or messy text: a copied spreadsheet range, a log dump, a list, or rows separated by commas, tabs, pipes, or spaces. Each line becomes one row.

2

Pick a delimiter

Leave it on Auto-detect to let the tool score commas, tabs, semicolons, and pipes for the most consistent split, or force a specific delimiter. Use Custom for unusual separators like :: or ~.

3

Copy the CSV

Toggle whether the first line is a header (otherwise col1, col2, ... are generated), then copy or download the RFC-4180 CSV. Fields with commas, quotes, or newlines are quoted automatically.

02 · Why ours

Why use this Text to Columns tooltool

A focused converter for the everyday problem of pasted text that should have been a CSV.

  • 01

    Auto-detects the delimiter

    It scores commas, tabs, semicolons, and pipes by how consistently they split your lines into the same number of columns, then falls back to whitespace when none fit. No guessing on your part.

  • 02

    Handles ragged rows

    Lines with fewer fields are padded and over-long rows are kept aligned to the widest line, so the grid stays rectangular and valid CSV every time.

  • 03

    Proper CSV escaping

    Output follows RFC-4180: any field containing a comma, double quote, or newline is wrapped in quotes with internal quotes doubled, so it opens cleanly in Excel, Sheets, or any parser.

  • 04

    Fully private

    Everything runs as client-side JavaScript. Your pasted text is never sent to a server, logged, or stored, which matters for internal data, logs, and anything sensitive.

"Each line becomes a row, each delimiter a column boundary, and the result is RFC-4180 CSV you can drop straight into a spreadsheet."
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03 · FAQ

text to columns questions.

How does auto-detection choose a delimiter?
It samples up to the first 50 lines and tests comma, tab, semicolon, and pipe. For each it finds the most common field count and rewards delimiters that split many lines consistently into more than one column. If none produce multiple columns, it falls back to splitting on runs of whitespace.
Choose Custom in the delimiter menu and type your separator, such as :: or ~ or a single character. The tool splits each line on that exact string. If you leave the custom box empty it falls back to whitespace splitting.
The grid is sized to the widest row. Shorter rows are padded with empty fields and the header is extended with col-style names if needed, so the output is always a rectangular, valid CSV.
Yes. Uncheck "First line is a header row" and the tool generates generic headers col1, col2, col3, and so on, treating every pasted line as a data row.
No. The conversion happens entirely in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing you paste is transmitted, stored, or logged, so it is safe for internal or sensitive text.