# Tool for cleaning up imports?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tool-for-cleaning-up-imports/132482
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [September 18, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tool-for-cleaning-up-imports/132482 "2025-09-18T09:15:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@jw3126](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jw3126)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tool-for-cleaning-up-imports/132482/1 "2025-09-18T09:15:35Z")
Is there a tool for cleaning up import statements? When a package grows, I often end up with a long and messy list of imports that usually contains many duplicate imports.
Instead, I would like to have each import once and sorted alphabetically.
Is there a tool that can do this for me? In the codebase I have in mind, there are many somewhat tricky corner cases. For instance submodules, multi-line imports, import statements in string literals etc.
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### Author:  [@gdalle](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gdalle)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tool-for-cleaning-up-imports/132482/2 "2025-09-18T12:35:44Z")
Not quite what you are asking for but ExplicitImports.jl is closely related