Here's a few ways...

If you're using a version of Perl that has smart match:

if ($name ~~ [$t1, $t2]) {
   ...;
}

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I've written match::smart which has a pure Perl implementation of smart match, which will allow you to do smart matching on older Perls:

use match::smart "match";

if (match $name, [$t1, $t2]) {
   ...;
}

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A lot of people don't like smart match though because the rules for exactly how it behaves are kind of confusing. match::smart comes bundled with match::simple which has saner rules and will also do what you're looking for:

use match::simple "match";

if (match $name, [$t1, $t2]) {
   ...;
}

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You can use List::Util's any function:

use List::Util "any";

if (any { $name eq $_ } $t1, $t2) {
   ...;
}

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match::simple has an optional XS implementation, match::simple::XS, and if you can install it, that will probably be faster than List::Util or match::smart.

toby döt ink

In reply to Re: Comparing multiple strings by tobyink
in thread Comparing multiple strings by bigup401

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