How to Extract Text Between Delimiters Online
To extract text between two delimiters, paste your text into the Extract Text Between tool, type the start and end markers (like [ and ]), and it lists every substring found between them with a total count. It runs fully in your browser, so even sensitive text stays private and works offline.
This tutorial explains what the tool does, walks through each step, and shows how it safely handles tricky delimiter characters.
What "text between delimiters" means
A delimiter is any marker that wraps the content you care about. Common pairs include square brackets [ ], parentheses ( ), quotes " ", curly braces { }, and HTML tags such as <td> and </td>. Extract Text Between finds every occurrence of your start marker, then captures everything up to the next end marker, and repeats through the whole document. Each captured piece becomes a separate match.
That makes it ideal for isolating placeholders in a template, IDs wrapped in symbols, values inside log brackets, or the contents of a repeated tag.
Step-by-step
- Paste your text. Drop the full block — a log, an HTML snippet, a template, or a config — into the input box.
- Enter the start delimiter. Type the opening marker, for example
[or<title>. - Enter the end delimiter. Type the closing marker, such as
]or</title>. - Read the matches. Every substring between the pair appears on its own line, with a total count of how many were found.
- Copy or download. Send the matches to your clipboard or save them as a text file.
Choosing delimiters for common tasks
| You want | Start delimiter | End delimiter |
|---|---|---|
| Values inside brackets | [ | ] |
| Text inside parentheses | ( | ) |
| Quoted strings | " | " |
| Content of a tag | <td> | </td> |
Special characters and privacy
Delimiters like brackets, dots, or asterisks have special meaning in pattern matching, but the tool handles them safely so they are treated as literal characters — you never have to escape anything, and odd symbols will not make the extraction fail. And because all of this happens locally in your browser with nothing uploaded, you can run it on private logs or proprietary templates without exposing them. It also works offline once loaded.
Try the Extract Text Between tool — free and 100% in your browser.
FAQ
What if the start and end delimiters are the same character?
Use the same character in both fields — for quoted strings, put " as start and end. The tool pairs them in order to capture what sits between each pair.
Can I extract the contents of every matching tag at once?
Yes. Set the opening tag as the start and the closing tag as the end, and every occurrence in the document is captured as a separate match with a running count.
Do I need to escape brackets or dots?
No. Special characters in your delimiters are handled literally, so you can type them directly without escaping and the tool will not error.
Is my pasted text uploaded anywhere?
No. Extraction runs entirely in your browser, so your data stays on your device and the tool works offline.
Related free tools
- Strip HTML Tags — remove the tags instead of reading between them.
- Extract URLs — pull links from the same text.
- Find and Replace Text — transform matches after extracting.
- Split Text Into Lines — break results apart further.
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