mayank2211 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All, I have a requirement in perl where i want to verify that the input value matches from any of the values in a array variable. can you please suggest how to achieve this. Please Find Below a sample code. 

my $input_val = 'abc';
@names = ("abc", "def", "ijk");

if($input_val eq @names)
{print "Match Found";}
else
{ print "Match Failed";}

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Re: if Loop with array
by toolic (Bishop) on Jun 11, 2015 at 16:20 UTC
    grep is one way: 
    use warnings;
use strict;

my $input_val = 'abc';
my @names = ("abc", "def", "ijk");

if (grep { $input_val eq $_ } @names)
{print "Match Found";}
else
{ print "Match Failed";}

print "\n";

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      Thanks. Your suggestion solved the issue. Thanks a lot
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Re: if Loop with array
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 11, 2015 at 16:19 UTC 
    if ( grep { $_ eq $input } @names ) { ... }

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