Thread: Sequential numbers regex?
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Old 10-10-2011, 03:30 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by soparch View Post
Hello,
I wondered if anyone out there could help me. I want to be able to mark some tags up with sequential numbers and I wondered if this was possible with regular expressions.
What I want is for example to replace say

<p> with <p id="1"> <p id="2"> and so on etc, etc

I know nothing about regex's so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
In epp:
<p id="%MATCHN%">
Perhaps your editor has something similar.

An id should begin with an alpha character so the statement would be something like:
<p id="CH_%MATCHN%">

PS: Most Grep tools have a numbering cpability.
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