How about this?

sub checkxtlist (@) {
   my @Excluded = qw(Table_A Table_B);
   my %Excludes = map { $_ => 1 } @Excluded;
   my @Accepted = grep { !$Excludes{$_} } @_;
   my $status = (@_ == @Accepted) ? "good" : "bad";
}

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Of course, you probably don't want to hard code the list of excluded tables in the subroutine (I don't know though, you might). And I'm not sure why you want a prototype on this subroutine either.

Also, if you wanted to exclude by regular expression, you could do that too without much difficulty:

sub checkxtpatlist ($@) {
   my $pat = shift;
   my @Accepted = grep { !/$pat/ } @_;
   return my $status = (@_ == @Accepted) ? "good" : "bad";
}

my $s = checkxtpatlist(qr/Table_[ABC]/,@tables);

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duff

In reply to Re: Re: Find array duplicates by duff
in thread Find array duplicates by Win

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