"Increment numbers in a string"

oneliner October 20, 2005 Reply

Looks to big for me... this will also work

import re
def increment(s):
....re.sub(r'\d+(?=[^\d]*$)', lambda m: str(int(m.group())+1).zfill(len(m.group())), s)

It's also faster. If you think it's too complex you can break it up.