sub merge { my %hash; $hash{$_}++ for @_; return keys %hash; } sub intersection { my %hash; $hash{$_}++ for @_; return grep { $hash{$_} > 1 } keys %hash } sub lookup { $value = shift; for (@_) { return 1 if $value eq $_; } return 0; } @ary1 = qw( a b c d e f g ); @ary2 = qw( e f g h i j k ); print merge ( @ary1, @ary2), "\n"; print intersection ( @ary1, @ary2 ), "\n"; for ( qw( j a p h ) ) { print lookup( $_, @ary2) ? "$_ Found\n" : "$_ Not found\n"; } #### sub oops { return FALSE; } print "Oops 'FALSE' is true in Perl" if &oops;