Find/Replace but Increment Value

Question

I have an .HTML file that has many photos attached to it for displaying a photo gallery. I\'m replacing old photos with new ones, and I\'m thinking there must be a more inte

Answer 1

Look into the Column Editor feature within Notepad++. You can do a block select on the area you want to increment and then give it a starting/ending range and you're all set.

I was in a similar situation recently. I did a little bit of regular expression search/replace to get my filenames into my "default" format with some padded "000" where I wanted my incrementing to start. After that, I used Shift+ALT to block select the 000s and used the editor to do the rest of the work.