Hi, before coming to .NET, I utilized regular expressions mostly in JScript /
JavaScript and also in my favorite text editor: TextPad (www.textpad.com)
I don't know about JScript/JavaScript, but in TextPad's implementation of
Regular Expressions, you can do a replacement expression like this: \i
For every single non-overlapping match, it places an incrementing number
starting with zero. Thus, if you searched for ^ (beginning of line anchor)
and replaced it with \i you could quickly add line numbers into your document.
You can also do a replacement expression like this: \i{5,10} which also
replaces every single non-overlapping match with an incrementing digit that
starts at 5 and increments by 10, etc.
I've read through all of my MSDN documentation that came with Visual
Studio.NET, and I can't find a simple replacement expression like this at
all. It looks like I would have to revert to using the Match Collection
somehow.. but that doesn't really help me place digits back into the original
input string.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
B.KeithW