Pure Regular Expression replace n by n+1

Question

How do I replace every number n that matches a certain pattern with n+1 in VsCode?

E.g.

1,2,3,4,5,6,

Result.

2,3,4,5,6,7,

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nmsmith89.incrementor — Pranav C Balan, Mar 21 '19 at 09:11
There seems to be a hack for this, it requires several search-and-replace steps. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Mar 21 '19 at 09:24

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '19 at 09:12

TL;DR: Regex doesn't look like the appropriate tool.

However, some regular expressions engine allow it, such as vim's one:

s/<\zs\d\+\ze>/\=(submatch(0)+1)/g

And in sublime text there is a plugin for that: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12940856/6320039

This said you could either use vim only for this task or help the community by creating a new plugin similar to the above example!

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