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HTML
<span id="old-1">Some text</span>
<span id="new-2">new</span>
<span id="old-3">Some text</span>
<span id="new-4">new</span>
JavaScript
$('span').each(function()
{
var idnum = $(this).attr('id').match(/[\d]/);
$('#new-' + idnum).text("span id "+idnum+" changed.");
$('#old-' + idnum).text("span id "+idnum+" changed.");
}
);