How do I append every single occurance of a phrase with that phrase plus an incremental number?

Question

I am using the Vim extension in VSCode.

I want to append every occurrence of a phrase, for example:

breadCrumbLabel

In my codebase with the instance number. The first occurrence would have to be:

breadCrumbLabel 1

the second would be:

breadCrumbLabel 2

and so on.

Does this answer your question? How to replace each match with incrementing counter? There's several different techniques there: hopefully one of them works in VSCode. — Rich, Jan 18 '24 at 12:10
Thz common understanding is that rhe VsCode plugin is not in the score of this site (see what is vi) but the redirection of romainl could help you partly :-) — Vivian De Smedt, Jan 18 '24 at 12:55
Yes. The Vi(m)-like behavior of the plugin is on-topic, but VSCode-specific parts are not. — D. Ben Knoble, Jan 18 '24 at 13:24

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '24 at 13:24

In Vim, I would use :grep or :vimgrep to fill the quickfix list (or a location-list variant) and then use the classic

:let i = 1
:cdo substitute/$/\=' '..i/ | let i += 1

Here I’ve assumed the instances are spread out across files. If they are locally contained, any of the solutions at How to replace each match with incrementing counter? should do.

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