my @countries = ( "India", "America", "Germany", "Austria", ); if ( grep { $_ eq $country } @countries ) { print "True"; } #### my @countries = ( "India", "America", "Germany", "Austria", ); for (@countries) { if ($_ eq $country) { print "True"; last; } } #### my @countries = ( "India", "America", "Germany", "Austria", ); my %countries = map { $_ => 1 } @countries; if ($countries{$country}) { print "True"; }