Fill arrays with ranges of numbers

Question

Is there any syntax/package allowing quick filling of java arrays with ranges of numbers, like in perl?

e.g.

int[] arr = new int[1000];
arr=(1..500,3         


        

Answer 1

Not quite as clean as True Soft's answer, but you can use Google Guava to the same effect:

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //one liner
        int[] array = toArray(newLinkedList(concat(range(1, 10), range(500, 1000))));

        //more readable
        Iterable values = concat(range(1, 10), range(500, 1000));
        List list = newLinkedList(values);
        int[] array = toArray(list);

    }

    public static List range(int min, int max) {
        List list = newLinkedList();
        for (int i = min; i <= max; i++) {
            list.add(i);
        }

        return list;
    }

}

Note you need a few static imports for this to work.