Prefix and postfix elements of a bash array

Question

I want to pre- and postfix an array in bash similar to brace expansion.

Say I have a bash array

ARRAY=( one two three )

I want to b

Answer 1

Your last loop could be done in a whitespace-friendly way with:

EXPANDED=()
for E in "${ARRAY[@]}"; do
    EXPANDED+=("prefix_${E}_suffix")
done
echo "${EXPANDED[@]}"