Increment a number in a string in with regex

Question

I get the name of an input element, which is a string with a number (url1). I want to increment the number by 1 (url2) in the easiest and quickest way possible.

My way would be to get \d / restofstring, ++ the match, then put together number with restofstring. Is there a better way?

Update:

My final (dummy)code became:

var liNew = document.createElement('li'); 
liNew.innerHTML = liOld.innerHTML; 
var els = Y.Dom.getChildrenBy(liNew, function(el) { 
    return el.name.match(/\d+$/); 
} // YUI method where the function is a test 
for (var i = 0, el; el = els[i]; i++) { 
    el.name = el.name.replace(/\d+$/, function(n) { return ++n }); 
} 
list.appendChild(liNew); 

Answer 1

How about:

'url1'.replace(/\d+$/, function(n){ return ++n }); // "url2"
'url54'.replace(/\d+$/, function(n){ return ++n }); // "url55"

There we search for a number at the end of the string, cast it to Number, increment it by 1, and place it back in the string. I think that's the same algo you worded in your question even.

Reference:

• String.prototype.replace - can take a regex