use strict; use warnings; my $color1="chr,red,green,yellow"; my @color1=split(',',$color1); my @colors=("red","black","blue","white","green","orange","yellow","pink", "purple","violet","cyan","magenta","navy","brown","gold","lime", "gray","burgundy","silver","clear","teal"); my $color; foreach $color(@color1){ my $i=0; if ($color eq $colors[$i]){ print "$color here\n"; } $i++; }