Add Line Numbers

Number your lines without typing a single digit

You are going over a contract with a colleague on the phone and want to say "look at line 14" instead of "the paragraph that starts with whatever". Or you are putting together exam questions, or sharing a snippet of code and need to point at one line. Jood's tool puts a number and a full stop in front of every line, so the text is ready to copy or print.

How to use it

1. Paste your text into the box.
2. Click "Start Now".
3. Copy the numbered text with "Copy Result".

Each line comes out as "1. " followed by the line exactly as you wrote it, with its content and spacing untouched.

How the numbering works

• It always starts at 1 and goes up one line at a time to the end of the text.
• Blank lines get a number too, because they are lines in the text. If you do not want that, delete them first.
• The format is fixed: a number, a full stop and a space. Nothing else is added.
• A long paragraph that wraps over several lines on your screen is still one line with one number, because the tool counts real lines, the ones that end with a line break.

Where numbering helps

• Reviewing contracts or legal text with several people.
• Preparing exam questions or a checklist to print and hand out.
• Sharing code or a configuration file in a message and referring to lines by number.
• Numbering the lines of a poem to discuss it in class.

If you only need to know how many lines there are, the line counter is quicker. To spot what changed between two versions of a text, try the text compare tool.

Where your text goes

The text is sent to Jood's server, numbered, and shown on the same page. It is not kept after the result is displayed.