Remove numbers from text
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Removes every digit from a block of text, leaving the words. The opposite operation — keeping only the numbers — is one tap away.
How to use the remove numbers from text
Removing digits leaves the punctuation that was holding them together, so 2024-118 becomes - rather than disappearing. That is deliberate: deleting the surrounding characters as well would be a different operation and would silently remove hyphens from real words. If you want both gone, running the punctuation remover afterwards does it.
The common use is anonymising text before sharing it — order numbers, reference codes, dates and amounts are the identifying parts of most business text, and stripping the digits leaves something readable that no longer points at a specific record. It is worth being clear that this is not anonymisation in any rigorous sense: names, addresses and email addresses survive untouched, and re-identification from those is usually trivial.
The other use is text analysis, where digits are noise. Word frequency, readability scores and most language processing treat numbers as tokens that dilute the result, and removing them before counting gives a cleaner picture of the vocabulary.
Questions
Only digits are removed, so 2024-118 leaves a hyphen. Run the punctuation remover afterwards if you want both gone.