My apologies for some of the ambiguity, I'll do what I can to clear it up. From the data, only one new group is added at a time, and it will never include parts of an group that has already been established eg. if A:B has been looped through B:C or A:C cannot exist, but C:D can. Only one new group or single element are added at a time. Here's an example list of what I mean: 51:50, 51:50:47, 51:50:47:42, 37:30, 51:50:47:42:37:30 and so on. Here's my current loop which only works for groups of two such as A:B.

 foreach (0..$#names) {
    my $dist = (($distances[$_]*$xaxisstep)+42);
    my @tmp = split /:/, $names[$_];
    my @tmp1;
    if (($#tmp+1)==2) {
        foreach (@tmp){ 
            $_++;
            print PS " 42.00 $labelmarks{$_} mt $dist $labelmarks{$_} 
+ls\n";
        }
        print PS " $dist $labelmarks{${tmp[0]}} mt $dist $labelmarks{$
+{tmp[1]}} ls\n";
        $xlabelmarks{$tmp[0].":".$tmp[1]}= $dist;
        $labelmarks{$tmp[0].":".$tmp[1]} = (($labelmarks{$tmp[0]}+$lab
+elmarks{$tmp[1]})/2);
        delete ($labelmarks{$tmp[0]});
        delete ($labelmarks{$tmp[1]});    
    }

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