Given a string containing 9 hexadecimal characters, I need to generate a list of all possible 10 character hexadecimal strings that contain the given 9 characters in order. The list need not be in any specific order.

I think the complete list will have 16x10=160 items, but 9 of those will be duplicates. Don't worry about removing the duplicates, but if your solution doesn't include them that is fine too.

Obviously, this can be done with a couple nested loops and string concatenation. Somehow, that just doesn't feel like the best way to me though.

For example, given 0ae4bb830, the list would include:

00ae4bb830
10ae4bb830
20ae4bb830
30ae4bb830
40ae4bb830
50ae4bb830
60ae4bb830
70ae4bb830
80ae4bb830
90ae4bb830
a0ae4bb830
b0ae4bb830
c0ae4bb830
d0ae4bb830
e0ae4bb830
f0ae4bb830
00ae4bb830*
01ae4bb830
02ae4bb830
03ae4bb830
04ae4bb830
...

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In reply to Generate list of possibilities from incomplete input by Pascal666

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