I've a function which searches a given number from an array and returns the result.

What you have is a function that tells whether one or more entries in the array contain a given substring. That's not the same as searching for a number.

Consider the difference between 

  my @matches = grep { /$l_number/ } @numbers;

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and 
  my @matches = grep { $_ == $l_number } @numbers;

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The former will match "11" when you're searching for a "1". That latter won't.

That problem aside, have you considered an alternate data structure? If you're going to be doing multiple probes for numbers, you might be better served by building a hash keyed by the number in each @number. Then, determining if a given number exists in the "array" becomes 

  if ( $number{$l_number} ) { ...

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Also, returning the strings "TRUE" or "FALSE" makes writing 
  if ( checknumber(47) ) { ...

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problematic, because the function will always return a non-false value. Return 0 (for false) and 1 (for true), and you'll save yourself a lot of grief later.

In reply to Re: Very slow array searching by dws
in thread Very slow array searching by Rafaqat

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