<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [TxMt] Re: How can I add a sequencial number to this Find/Replace?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Thanks Graham, that worked great but I am having one problem. The first line of your formula gets placed into my first placeholder. Example: <PortalObj portalFlags="16" numOfRows="1" initialRow=$ seq 16 32> On 2/20/15 9:41 AM, "Graham P Heath" <<a href="graham.p.heath@gmail.com">graham.p.heath@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>You can combine Multiple Carets and Copy + Paste to achieve this easily. Find a list of the numbers you want to use, I assume you’re capable of generating the list in some way, but I like using the `seq` command in the terminal such as: <BLOCKQUOTE>$ seq 16 32 16 17 […snip...] 31 32 </BLOCKQUOTE> Note: It is important that they be separated by new line characters. Copy this list. Select your first placeholder: “##" <PortalOBj portalFlags="16" numbOfRows="1" initialRow=“##”> Press Control + W, this selects the next placeholder. Repeat until your selection contains all of your placeholders. Paste. Graham P Heath On February 20, 2015 at 8:29:30 AM, René Schwaiger (<a href="sanssecours@f-m.fm">sanssecours@f-m.fm</a>) wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>Hi jgaltUSA, > On 20 Feb 2015, at 9:50 , jgaltUSA <<a href="jgaltUSA@gmail.com">jgaltUSA@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > I am a newbie to textmate and I am trying to perform a find and replace. I want to replace the matched text with a sequential number. > > Here is my current replacement string: $1##$2 > > How can I replace the ## with a sequential number? I do not think that what you want is possible using only regular expressions and “Find & Replace”. It is possible and not to complex using a programming language. The following code does what you want: #!/usr/bin/env python from re import compile from sys import stdin, stdout regex = compile( """(<PortalOBj portalFlags="16" numbOfRows="1" initialRow=")\d+(">)""") index = 16 def create_subtitute_function(): def substitute(match): global index replacement = "{}{}{}".format(match.group(1), index, match.group(2)) index += 1 return replacement return substitute text = regex.sub(create_subtitute_function(), stdin.read()) stdout.write(text) I attached a bundle which contains a command that uses the above code. To install the bundle just double click it. You can apply the substitution on some text by pressing the key combination “^⌥⌘R”. Since the above is my code I would be careful when you use the command though :). > For example, I want the first sequential number to be 16. > > Here is a screen capture: > > Thanks! Kind regards, René P.S.: You can create a screenshot of a single window by using the key combination “⇧⌘4”. After that just hit “Space” and a click on the window you would like to make a screenshot of. This way you do not need to crop the picture. <HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="100%"> _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list <a href="textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a> </BLOCKQUOTE> <HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"> _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list <a href="textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate</a> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>