Powershell equivalent of Bash Brace Expansion for generating lists/arrays

Question

When writing a Bash script you can use brace expansion to quickly generate lists:

Answer 1

I have a way to do it using int's tostring method. The '000' at the end is a special format code. It always pads to the right number of zeros. You can also use wildcards with method names like t*g if you really want to be terse and mysterious.

1..10 | % tostring computer000

computer001
computer002
computer003
computer004
computer005
computer006
computer007
computer008
computer009
computer010


1..10 | % t*g 192\.168\.1\.0

192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.3
192.168.1.4
192.168.1.5
192.168.1.6
192.168.1.7
192.168.1.8
192.168.1.9
192.168.1.10

'x' is also a format code for hex printing.

10..15 | % tostring x

a
b
c
d
e
f

There's always -replace, which also works on arrays. '^' is regex for 'beginning of line'. Use '$' instead for 'end of line'.

(echo test dev prod) -replace '^','server-'

server-test
server-dev
server-prod

Hah, I never tried this before.

(echo test dev prod) -replace (echo ^ server-)

server-test
server-dev
server-prod

Maybe they could do that brace expansion in powershell 8...