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Thanks, AmigoJack, I appreciate the detailed answer.

I'm specifically interested in who came up with the `\i` syntax. I tracked down John Maddock (who's now a luthier!) and he thinks that was original to TextPad, not a feature of RegEx++.

I've always been a fan of TextPad's elegant extension of RegEx in generating sequential numbers, using the \i expression syntax.

I found more details elsewhere in this forum: https://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?p=43052#p43052 ):


\i Replace with numbers starting from 1, incrementing by 1.
\i ...