Typing a column of numbers (1,2,3...)

Question

I am writing a C# program containing these lines:

Console.Writeline("1");  
Console.Writeline("2");  
[...]  
Console.Writeline("26");

Is there a quick way to type the 26 numbers? I'm using Visual Studio and Notepad++ for editors, but suggestions which use others editors are also welcome.

Answer 1

well, it depends what softwares you have.

with Excel/Calc, you can do that:

1. In A1 put: Console.Writeline("
2. In B1 put: 1
3. In C1 put: ");
4. In D1 put: =concatenate(A1;B1;C1)
5. Select from A1 to D1 and copy and paste to te first 26 rows
6. Select from D1 to D26, copy and paste cells to your code

with windows batch:

1. open cmd (start>execute>cmd)
2. write that in cmd and press enter: for /l %i in (1,1,26) do echo.Console.Writeline("%i");>>code.txt
3. write that in cmd and then copy to your code: notepad code.txt
4. write that in cmd to delete created .txt: del code.txt

Answer 2

vim;

vim myfile
# Navigate to where you want the code. (Use hjkl to move)
i  # Enter insert mode
Console.Writeline("1")
esc # Enter command mode
qa # "start recording in register a"
# Duplicate the first line
yy
p

You should now see something like;

Console.Writeline("1")
Console.Writeline("1")
~
~
~
~
~
recording

Now place cursor at the 1 in the second line

Control a #increments the number
q #stop recording

Repeat the macro for as many lines as you want (in your case, 24 more times)

24@a

Answer 3

This C# code snippet will print out source code for you to copy and paste into your program:

for (int i = 1; i < 27; i++) {
    Console.Writeline("Console.Writeline(\"" + i.ToString() + "\");");
}

I really hope this is just a badly reduced sample of what you actually want to do.