Tip: #971 - Substitute with incrementing numbers
Created: August 13, 2005 10:51 Complexity: advanced Author: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm--AT--gentoo.org> Version: 6.0 Karma: 36/19 Imported from: Tip#971
Say you have a document:
foo bar
bar foo
bar
foo
and you want to replace the first foo with blah_1, the second with blah_2, the third with blah_3 and so on. There are a number of options. The most obvious is:
:let i=1
Comments
alas, setreg() not found in vim 6.1
Anonymous , August 14, 2005 4:25
The canonical way to solve this is by way of a function. Define something like
- fun CountUp()
- let ret = g:i
- let g:i = g:i + 1
- return ret
- endf
Then you can simply say
- let i = 1 | %s/foo/\="bar_" . CountUp()/g
pagaltzis--AT--gmx.de , August 15, 2005 13:27