Re: Increment a string with letters and numbers

[hdb]

More or less same procedure as yours but in one expression. Probably not much of an improvement...

while(<DATA>) {
    s/(\D+)(0*)(\d+)/sprintf("%s%07d",$1,$3+1)/e;
    print;
}
__DATA__
EVO:0000023
EVO:0000099
EVO:0010099
EVO:9999999