Re: [tlug] perl regexp question

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:24:40PM +0900,
Ryan Shaw wrote:

> is it possible to write a regexp that will do 
> something like the following:
> 
> file10.txt -> file11.txt
> file20.txt -> file21.txt
> file55.txt -> file56.txt
> 
> etc.
> 
> something along the lines of s/(\d+)/$1+1/
> though obviously that doesn't work.
> 
> is it not possible to manipulate the values
> in the capture buffers like this?

In perl, s/(\d+)/$1+1/e will do what you want.

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