Get Text Between Two Characters

Get text between characters from any input with this privacy-friendly delimiter text extractor. Extract text between delimiters, brackets, tags, and strings instantly in your browser with live preview and export options.

Delimiter text extractor

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Get Text Between Characters - Explanation & Examples

Get Text Between Two Characters is a fast, privacy-friendly tool that extracts text between delimiters such as brackets, tags, words, and custom strings. It runs fully in your browser, so your text is never uploaded.

⭐ What this delimiter text extractor does

  • Extracts text between single characters like [ and ]
  • Extracts text between strings such as <div> and </div>
  • Supports multiple matches in the same input
  • Handles nested delimiters, missing closing delimiters, empty matches, and multi-line text
  • Works with Unicode characters and large text blocks

⚙️ Matching and output options

  • Case sensitive matching: match exact casing, or ignore capitalization
  • Remove duplicates: keep only unique extracted values
  • Trim whitespace: remove leading and trailing spaces from each match
  • Include delimiters: include start and end delimiters in each extracted result
  • Export formats: download results as TXT, CSV, or JSON

🔎 How to get text between characters

  1. Paste or type your source text into Main text input.
  2. Enter your start delimiter and end delimiter.
  3. Enable options like case sensitivity or deduplication if needed.
  4. Review extracted values in real time, then copy or download.

⭐ Example: extract text between brackets

Input text:

Hello [John]
Welcome [Sarah]
Bye [John]

Start delimiter: [
End delimiter: ]

Output with deduplication OFF:

John
Sarah
John

Output with deduplication ON:

John
Sarah

🧩 Common use cases

  • Extract text between HTML tags for cleanup or migration
  • Find text between markers in logs, exports, or templates
  • Extract values between brackets, quotes, or custom wrappers
  • Prepare extracted matches for scripts, spreadsheets, or APIs

🔒 Privacy-friendly by design

All extraction is performed client-side in JavaScript. Your content remains on your device and is not sent to any server.

This tool is also known as

  • get text between characters
  • extract text between delimiters
  • substring extractor online
  • text between two strings
  • delimiter text parser

Frequently Asked Questions

It lets you get text between characters, words, or custom delimiters from a larger text block in real time.

Yes. You can use single characters, strings, words, or HTML-like delimiters as start and end markers.

Yes. The tool finds and lists all matches between the selected start and end delimiters.

When enabled, delimiters must match exact uppercase and lowercase letters. When disabled, matching ignores case.

When enabled, duplicate extracted values are removed while preserving the first occurrence order.

Leading and trailing spaces are removed from each extracted result before it is displayed or exported.

Yes. Enable <strong>Include delimiters</strong> to keep both start and end markers around each match.

You can copy results or download them as TXT, CSV, or JSON.

Nested pairs are supported. Unclosed delimiter starts are ignored until a valid closing delimiter is found.

Yes. All processing runs completely in your browser, so your text is not uploaded or stored on a server.