Greetings, fellow monks,

I'm trying to come up with a clever way to solve the following problem and am convinced that I should be able to do it in one line (or thereabouts), but the gray matter isn't working up to full snuff. What I've got so far is: 

my @x = (4, 4, 2);
my @y; my $pref = 'XX';

foreach my $chunk (1 .. @x) {
  my $loc = sprintf("$pref%02d:", $chunk);
  push @y, map {$loc . $_} ( 1 .. $x[$chunk-1] );
}

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That gives me: 

@y = qw(XX01:1 XX01:2 XX01:3 XX01:4 XX02:1 XX02:2 XX02:3
        XX02:4 XX03:1 XX03:2);

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which is the right output, but I feel there should be a better way to achieve the end...

In reply to Clever map / foreach algorithm sought by bmcatt

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