Find and replace with incrementing numbers

Question

I have several lines that look like the following:

"Timestamp": 200,
"Timestamp": 1200,
"Timestamp": 3100,

I want to replace all the numbers, starting at 10 and incrementing by 10's so it looks like this:

"Timestamp": 10,
"Timestamp": 20,
"Timestamp": 30,

Answer 1

I am not sure if you are looking for pure :%s/// solution or not.

I would approach this with 10 + g + <C-a>:

1. replace all numbers with 0: :%s/\d\+,/0,
2. select all zeroes and increment them by 10: 10g<C-a>

Answer 2

You can use a Vimscript variable and increment it after each substitution. By using the :g command with a pattern, you can follow it with both a :s to replace the number (using \= in the replacement part to use the Vimscript variable) and also a :let command to increment the variable.

:let a = 10 | g/^"Timestamp": \zs\d\+\ze,$/ s//\=a/ | let a += 10

See:

• :help :bar (the bar | is used as a command separator in Vimscript.)
• :help :let to assign and increment a Vimscript variable.
• :help :g (the :global command executes another Ex command for each matching line.)
• :help /\zs and :help /\ze: these markers mark the start and end of the match in a regular expression.
• :help :s for the substitute. The empty pattern // makes it reuse the same pattern from the :g command.
• :help sub-replace-expression for using \= in a substitution replacement to evaluate a Vimscript expression.

Answer 3

One more way, using a macro:

First set the unmamed register to contain zero:

:let @n=0

Then record into a register of your choice (but not the 'n' register, since we're using that above! e.g. qa to use the 'a' register) the following macro (where ^A is pressing 'ctrl'+'a'):

0Wdt,"nP10^A"nyiwj

The way it works is as follows:

• 0W moves to the start of the line, then jumps to the number
• dt, deletes the existing number
• "nP pastes the contents of the 'n' register (which we initally set to zero)
• 10^A increment the number we just pasted by 10
• "nyiw replace the contents of the 'n' register by the incremented number
• j move down to the next line

Now you can run apply the macro to all the remaining lines:

:2,$norm @a