Incremental numbers at every found string

Incremental numbers at every found string

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    Sep 23, 2006#1

    Hello,

    Not a new UltraEdit user, but new to the forums . . .

    I'm building source files and would like to find a quick, easy way to increment numbers, thusly . . .

    I have [Source] (hundreds of them) and would like to make it

    [source1]
    ...

    [source2]
    ....

    [source3]
    ...

    and so on. Is there a way to do a search and replace, such as

    Find [Source]
    replace with [SourceN], [SourceN+1] ...

    Or some other way to avoid manually typing more than 500 numbers in sequence?

    Thanks in advance

    Justin

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      Sep 24, 2006#2

      Once again a job for my universal macro CountUp. First you must create the macro CountUp posted at How to insert an incrementing number in a file using a counter in a macro?

      It's important that you first create the submacro CountUp before creating the main macro with the PlayMacro command. This command will be automatically deleted without a warning from the main macro when closing the main macro editing if the CountUp macro is not already present in the macro file respectively loaded already into memory of UltraEdit.

      The macro property Continue if a Find with Replace not found must be checked for the main macro. The main macro has following code for your usage:

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      InsertMode
      ColumnModeOff
      HexOff
      Top
      "0"
      Clipboard 9
      StartSelect
      Key LEFT ARROW
      Cut
      EndSelect
      Loop
      Find "[source]"
      IfNotFound
      ExitLoop
      EndIf
      EndSelect
      Key LEFT ARROW
      PlayMacro 1 "CountUp"
      EndLoop
      Top
      ClearClipboard
      Clipboard 0
      Best regards from an UC/UE/UES for Windows user from Austria