CLEAN Function

About

CLEAN function in Excel can be used to remove the line breaks and other non-printable characters from a text string.

Function Type

Text

Purpose

Clean data by removing non-printable characters.

Return value

Text without non-printable characters.

Syntax

=CLEAN(text)

Arguments

text – text to be cleaned


Example


Notes

The CLEAN function removes the first 32 (non-printable) characters in the 7-bit ASCII code (values 0 through 31) from a text string.


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