my @cleanwords = qw (hut hat); my @allwords = qw (hit het hat); foreach my $var (@cleanwords) { if (any { $var eq $_} @allwords) { print "Found: ",$var, "\n"; } else { print $var," not found\n"; } } #### use File::Slurp::Tiny 'read_file'; my @allwords = read_file ($ref); #### foreach (@allwords){ print "allwords: ",$_,"\n"; }