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That's not the code I posted. You changed $i (9th letter) to $1 (one). My code works fine. 
>perl -le"$_='abc1 abc2 abc3 abc4 abc5'; s/1/++$i/eg; print"
abc1 abc2 abc3 abc4 abc5

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Re^4: incremental substitution w/ regexp only?
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Dec 25, 2008 at 16:19 UTC
    Aha – a Christmas cracker!

    Update: Too late, I realized my reply should've been "'$i see!', said the blind man".

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