Notepad++ incrementally replace
notepad++, regex, sequential
Solution
Not sure about regex, but there is a way for you to do this in Notepad++, although it isn't very flexible.
In the example that you gave, hold `Alt` and select the column of numbers that you wish to change. Then go to `Edit->Column Editor` and select the `Number to Insert` radio button in the window that appears. Then specify your initial number and increment, and hit OK. It should write out the incremented numbers.
Note: this also works with the `Multi-editing` feature (selecting several locations while maintaining Ctrl key pressed).
This is, however, not anywhere near the flexibility that most people would find useful. Notepad++ is great, but if you want a truly powerful editor that can do things like this with ease, I'd say use Vim.
Problem
Lets say I want to have a 10 rows of data but I want a value to increment for each row or piece of data. How do I increment that value? For example....If I have these rows, is there a regex way of replacing the id values to increment? ``` <row id="1" /> <row id="1" /> <row id="1" /> <row id="1" /> <row id="1" /> ``` --- Here is what I would like it to look like... (if the first row's id goes up one thats ok) ``` <row id="1" /> <row id="2" /> <row id="3" /> <row id="4" /> <row id="5" /> ```