# Sage_CleanText

**Clean Text**

Cleans or normalizes a text string by removing unwanted characters, excess whitespace, and formatting inconsistencies. Useful for preparing text for prompt or metadata processing.

## Inputs

### Required

- **str** (STRING): The string to clean and normalize

## Outputs

- **cleaned_string** (STRING): The cleaned and normalized text

## Usage

Use before passing text to prompt or metadata nodes to ensure clean input. This node applies text cleaning functions that remove extra spaces, normalize line breaks, and clean up formatting issues that can interfere with text processing.