Question

I have some code in Netbeans 6.1 editor that looks like this

fooString(8)

fooString(8)

fooString(8)

fooString(8)

foostring2(8)

foostring3(8)

foostring4(8)

foostring5(8)

foostring6(8)

foostring7(8)

foostring7(9)

foostring7(10)

foostring7(11)

foostring7(12)

and i want to convert it to
fooString(1)

fooString(2)

fooString(3)

fooString(4)

foostring2(5)

foostring3(6)

foostring4(7)

foostring5(8)

foostring6(9)

foostring7(10)

foostring7(11)

foostring7(12)

foostring7(13)

foostring7(14)

Is there a way e.g with regular expresions or anything else to do the job?

Thank you

Answer 1

Do you want to do this programmatically? If not, then I’d do the following

1. Use regular expression to insert a tab around the number so (8) becomes (\t8\t)

2. Copy this to an Excel sheet. The tab would arrange the numbers in a separate column i.e. excel will look something like this.

         A            B        C
      foostring(      8        )
   
      foostring1(     8        )
   
      foostring2(     8        )
   

   etc.

3. Now change the values in column B. Just type 1 and 2 in the first 2 rows and drag down to fill the rset of rows.

4. Copy back to netbeans editor and remove the tabs inserted in step 1.