use strict; use warnings; use feature qw{ say }; my @options = ( q{Option 1}, q{Option 2}, q{Option 3}, q{Option 4}, ); my $ct; @options = map { ++ $ct; qq{'$ct'}, qq{'$_'} } @options; say for @options; #### '1' 'Option 1' '2' 'Option 2' '3' 'Option 3' '4' 'Option 4'