defining large groups by domain name

[rader]

Does anyone know a terse way to define a (large) group of hosts
whose domain names have a numeric extension?

I tried writing a module but debug output makes me think that
modules can only define macros--not groups.

I'd be really nice to be able to say

 groups:
   g3_compute_nodes = ( HostRange(g3n,1,35) )

instead of

  g3_compute_nodes =   ( g3n01 g3n02 g3n03 g3n04 g3n05 g3n06
    g3n07 g3n08 g3n09 g3n10 g3n11 g3n12 g3n13 g3n14 g3n15 g3n16
    g3n17 g3n18 g3n19 g3n20 g3n21 g3n22 g3n23 g3n24 g3n25 g3n26
    g3n27 g3n28 g3n29 g3n30 g3n31 g3n32 g3n33 g3n34 g3n35 g3n35 )

yes?

steve
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systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin