Powershell dynamic string formatting

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Hi r/PowerShell,

I came across a little problem for which I only found an "ugly" solution.

$Count = 123
$i = 2

"[{0:d3}/{1}]" -f $i, $Count

The result of this is [002/123]. But what if I want to dynamically set this part: {0:d3} based on the amount of characters of $count?

This works:

$Count = 123
$Length = ($Count -as [String]).length
$i = 2

"[{0:d$Length}/{1}]" -f $i, $Count

But this is somewhat defies the use of -f. This obviously doesn't work:

$Count = 123
$Length = ($Count -as [String]).length
$i = 2

"[{0:d{1}}/{2}]" -f $i, $Length,$Count

Any way of doing this "nicely"?

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