using macro to insert an incrementing number

[akobari]

Hello forum,
I am new to this forum, but I have been using SlickEdit for a while. I am very interested to find a way to add an incrementing number by using SlickEdit macro recording/programming method, like 0.1.2.3.4, to a specific character in a c code: like this:

so each time when I call my macro, it searches the keyword "printf" and then adds a number 0, 1 .. 2 ,etc after "occurrence".
printf("===>  occurance#1");

printf("===>  occurrence#2");

This is very useful to me for debugging, let say I have 100's of these printf() and I do not want to edit the text 100 time to add an incrementing number!!

Thans,

[hs2]

Just simplified examples:

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// use 'set-var akobari_print_index' on cmdline / 'Macro>Set Macro Variable' to init
int akobari_print_index = 1;
_command void akobari_insert_print_index()
{
   _insert_text( (_str)akobari_print_index++ );
}

_command void akobari_insert_print_occurance()
{
   _insert_text( 'printf("===>  occurance#':+ (_str)akobari_print_index++ :+ ');');
}

Hope it helps, HS2

[akobari]

Hello hs2,
That was exactly what I was looking for , I was not sure if I can use a global variable in MACRO programming, like other languages i.e. C

thank you so much,