🧹 icon_cleaner #

A Dart CLI tool to automatically remove emoji characters (❌ ✅ 🧹 and all non-ASCII symbols) from your Flutter .dart files.

When you copy code from ChatGPT responses, it often includes emoji characters in print(), log(), and Text() calls that cause issues with App Store submissions and code reviews. This tool removes them automatically in one command.

📦 Install #

dart pub global activate icon_cleaner

🚀 Usage #

Basic — clean your lib folder #

icon_cleaner --path lib/

Preview first (dry run — no changes made) #

icon_cleaner --path lib/ --dry-run

Full options #

icon_cleaner --help

🎯 What It Removes #

All non-ASCII emoji characters from .dart files, for example:

📋 Example Output #

icon_cleaner --path lib/

Files scanned : 24
Files cleaned : 6
Done! All emoji characters removed successfully.

🔧 Programmatic Usage #

Use as a library in your own Dart code:

import 'package:icon_cleaner/icon_cleaner.dart';

void main() {
  // Remove emojis from a single string
  final clean = stripEmojis('Hello ❌ World ✅');
  print(clean); // Hello  World 

  // Clean a single file
  cleanFile('lib/screens/chat_screen.dart');

  // Clean entire directory
  cleanDirectory('lib/');
}

📄 License #

MIT License