While extending a contract, the contract number should auto increase

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When a contract of an employee is extended, by default the old contract number of the employee is shown. The requirement is that can the the contact number be auto increased. For instance if the old contract number was CONT12000 when the contract is being extended the number should auto increase to CONT12000-1. Is this possible?

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