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Increment numbers

Add (or subtract) a fixed amount to every number in your text.

Open Increment numbers and you get an answer straight away, with no account to create. You will find it under Transform & clean, with Add line numbers and Remove line numbers for the neighbouring cases.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What is Increment numbers?

Add (or subtract) a fixed amount to every number in your text.

When would I actually use this?

Cleaning up a paste before it goes anywhere: stripping duplicates from a list, normalising case, removing accents for a filename, or sorting lines.

What is the most common mistake?

Sorting text as if it were ASCII. Accented letters land after Z in a byte sort, which puts "Zurich" before "Émile" and produces a list no reader will accept.

How is Increment numbers different from Add line numbers?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Add line numbers is the one to open when you need it to prefix every line of your text with a sequential line number. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Remove line numbers is the closest one after this: Strip leading line numbers (1. 2) 3:) from every line.

Where do the figures come from?

Transformations use the browser's Unicode-aware string handling, so case changes and sorting respect the locale rather than byte order. Nothing is truncated: what comes out is the whole of what went in.

Further reading

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How-toNumbering the Lines of a Text for a Review with Several PeopleNumbering starts at 1 and cannot be set to 0, the alignment is spaces rather than zeros, and the remover undoes eight of the eleven separators without touching the indentation. What it still cannot do is tell your numbers from its own.ExplainerSorting Text Is Not One Operation: Four Orderings That All Call Themselves AlphabeticalCode-unit order, natural order and locale collation run on the same list in Node, with the outputs printed. Why Zebra beats apple, why item10 beats item9, and why ä sits next to a in German but after z in Swedish.GuideFormatting Numbers for Six Languages: Separators, Currency and the Parse Back1,234.56 and 1.234,56 are the same number, and confusing them changes the value a reader parses. We ran Intl.NumberFormat for all six site locales and printed every separator — including the invisible one French uses — then measured why parseFloat cannot undo any of it.ExplainerSentence Case and Title Case: The Rules Differ by LanguageEnglish title case has three different cutoffs depending on the style guide. French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian have none at all. German capitalises every noun. The tool knows about none of this — here is exactly what it does.ExplainerRemoving Accents Breaks Search — Until You Do It on Both SidesFolding diacritics is a normalisation step, and normalisation only works when the same function runs on the index and on the query. NFC against NFD with the code points shown, and the letters — ø, ł, ß, œ, ı — that survive the strip untouched.ExplainerDetecting the Language of a Text, and Why Short Texts FailMeasured, not asserted: 90 short real phrases across six languages, none declined and 68 right — 76%, falling to 64% under sixteen letters. Four of the wrong answers came back at 100% confidence.