Powershell dealing with a range of computer names.

Hello all. Abridged description, I'm a lab admin trying to re-write a VBS login script into Powershell. I need to be able to run commands determined by computer name and number...for instance, I have complabA01 through complabA70. 01-25
need to do an action and copy a shared file, 26-40 need a different action and the same shared file, and 41-70 get a different action still and said shared file. I've got the base code laid out and functional to determine the computer name and specific
lines based on that:
$cn = $env:computername
If($cn -like 'complabA*'){do stuff}
If($cn -like 'complabB*'){do other stuff} so on.
Is there a way go a layer deeper on that and say "if your number 01-25 do this"? The problem well may be that I'm coming at this with slightly deeper roots in VBS... so I may well be over/under thinking this.
In case it'll help, in VBS we handle it by turning the numbers at the end of the name into a separate variable and using said secondary variable in a select case.
Any thoughts on how that can be done in Powershell?

You can do this using a regular expression match. For example:
$computerName = "complabB04"
$computerName | select-string '^complab([\D])([\d]+)' | foreach-object {
$labCode = $_.Matches[0].Groups[1].Value
$computerCode = $_.Matches[0].Groups[2].Value
"Lab code: $labCode" # B
"Computer code: $computerCode" # 04
-- Bill Stewart [Bill_Stewart]

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