I need to add a number to a backreference while doing a replace operation.
e.g. I am rewriting a URL
www.site.com/doc.asp?doc=321&language=1
If you only have a few articles you could just brute force it
...doc=322 -> www.site.com/headline/100322.article ...doc=323 -> www.site.com/headline/100323.article ...doc=324 -> www.site.com/headline/100324.article ...etc
Math in regex, you see it here first.