Character Remover Script

If you've ever found yourself staring at a spreadsheet full of weird symbols or a text file that's suddenly sprouted thousands of extra semicolons, you probably realized pretty quickly that you need a character remover script. It's one of those tools you don't think about until you're three hours deep into manually deleting hashtags from a document, wondering where your life went wrong. Whether you're a developer trying to clean up a messy database or just someone who copied a bunch of text from a PDF that now has weird formatting, having a go-to script to handle the "garbage" characters is a total lifesaver. ...

February 2, 2026 · 7 min · Ting Lozano