if listElement in aList:
   ... do stuff ...

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In Perl you gotta do this with grep (or something else like that).

Although we can apparently look forward to the following constructs in Perl 6 (if I read this correctly): 

# Do stuff if $list_element is in @a_list
if ($list_element =~ @a_list) {
  ... do stuff ...
}

# ... OR ...

# Loop through a bunch of list elements
foreach @list_elements {

  # Do stuff if the current element is in @a_list
  when @a_list      { ... do stuff ... }
  
  # If not in @a_list, what about @other_list ?
  when @other_list  { ... do stuff ... }  
}

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buckaduck

In reply to Re: Re: Perl vs. Python: Looking at the Code by buckaduck
in thread Perl vs. Python: Looking at the Code by mothra

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