i have no idea how to do this shit but i think i can do it with replace extended

[Nico Henttunen]

make :
MR1C1178
MR1C1178
MR1C1178
MR1C1178

to:
MR1C1178
MR1C1188
MR1C1198
MR1C1208

thanks if possible

[Scott Sumner]

@Nico-Henttunen

It comes up occasionally. You cannot do it with “replace extended”. You can resort to a programming language (in which Notepad++ is not involved) or you can write a script within Notepad++ to do it. Some related script references follow if you care to do your research to get started:

• https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15318/replace-text-with-incremented-counter
• https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16307/need-regex-for-incremental-by-1
• https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16245/find-and-replace