Subj : Re: Program For Simple Text File Editing
To   : comp.programming
From : John W. Krahn
Date : Mon Oct 10 2005 09:05 am

mwmiller314@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm interested in avoiding a common text editing task.  It takes the
> form of editing a simple text file that I commonly open and change
> myself.  The file typically looks something like the following:
> 
>  "/join arkansas:2"
> "/join missouri:3"
>  "/join kentucky:4"
>  "/join tennessee:2"
> 
> ---
> I desire to edit the line not indented each time.  In this case it is:
> 
> "/join missouri:3"
> 
> The change I desire to be made by a program is to increment the number
> appearing after the ':' but before the quotation mark.  In this case
> there is no number.  I want the file to read:
> 
>  "/join arkansas:2"
> "/join missouri:4"
>  "/join kentucky:4"
>  "/join tennessee:2"


perl -i.bak -pe's!^("/join \w+:)(\d+)(?=")!$1 . ($2 + 1)!e' yourfile


John
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