Replace a number in Netbeans editor with incrementing number

Question

I have some code in Netbeans 6.1 editor that looks like this

fooString(8)
fooString(8)
fooString(8)
fooString(8)
foostring2(8)
foostring3(8)
foostring4(8)
foostring5(8)
foostring6(8)
foostring7(8)
foostring7(9)
foostring7(10)
foostring7(11)
foostring7(12)

and i want to convert it to fooString(1)
fooString(2)
fooString(3)
fooString(4)
foostring2(5)
foostring3(6)
foostring4(7)
foostring5(8)
foostring6(9)
foostring7(10)
foostring7(11)
foostring7(12)
foostring7(13)
foostring7(14)

Is there a way e.g with regular expresions or anything else to do the job?

Thank you

Answer 1

Do you want to do this programmatically? If not, then I'd do the following

1. Use regular expression to insert a tab around the number so (8) becomes (\t8\t)

2. Copy this to an Excel sheet. The tab would arrange the numbers in a separate column i.e. excel will look something like this.

         A            B        C
      foostring(      8        )
   
      foostring1(     8        )
   
      foostring2(     8        )
   

   etc.

3. Now change the values in column B. Just type 1 and 2 in the first 2 rows and drag down to fill the rset of rows.

4. Copy back to netbeans editor and remove the tabs inserted in step 1.