As soon as you're thinking of "sets" of unique items and not particularly interested in their order, use hashes.

Untested. 

my %a1; @a1{qw(a b c d e f g)} = ();
my %a2; @a2{qw(b g)} = ();

my @a1only = grep { not exists $a2{$_} } keys %a1;
my @a2only = grep { not exists $a1{$_} } keys %a2;
my @both = grep { exists $a2{$_} } keys %a1;
my %u; my @either = grep { not $u{$_}++ } (keys %a1, keys %a2);

# your question:
print "subset" if not @a2only;

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In reply to Re: Is one array a subset of the other by halley
in thread Is one array a subset of the other by Anonymous Monk

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