I think you mean: 

@nums{ @numbers } = (1) x @numbers;

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With your example, you were assigning a 1-element list (the hash slice forces the rhs into list context) to the hash slice, and so only one item of the hash assigned to will have a true value. For instance: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w       
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @array = (1, 3, 5, 7, 9);
my @numbers = (1, 4, 6 , 8);

my(%nums, %rums);

@nums{ @numbers } = 1;
@rums{ @numbers } = (1) x @numbers;
         
print Dumper \%nums;
print Dumper \%rums;

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Yields the output: 

$VAR1 = {
          '8' => undef,
          '1' => 1,
          '4' => undef,
          '6' => undef
        };
$VAR1 = {
          '8' => 1,
          '1' => 1,
          '4' => 1,
          '6' => 1
        };

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Which will, of course, lead to unexpected results if the item you are checking doesn't happen to be the one that the true value was assigned to.

On the other hand, you could always change the last two lines of your example to this instead: 

@nums{ @numbers } = ();
print "FOUND\n" if exists $nums{ $array[0] };

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It's more efficient, at any rate.

In reply to Re: Re: slow CGI's by jryan
in thread slow CGI's by Anonymous Monk

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