I want to find out if $anything is in some @array. I wrote this, but feel (due to my Perl un-skills) that there may be a better way. Ideas/comments? 

use strict;

my $input = <>;
chomp $input;

my @test_array = qw(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9);

if ( member($input, \@test_array) ) {
        print "Hey, there's one of those in there!\n\n";
} else {
        print "Better luck next time: it's not in there.\n\n";
}

sub member {
        my $possible    = $_[0];
        my $array_ref   = $_[1];

        foreach my $member ( @{$array_ref} ) {
                if ( $member eq $possible ) { return "1"; }
        }

        return "0";
}

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