No no no no no no no. The FAQ strongly suggests against this, and for many reasons:

• grep() does not short circuit -- once it finds a match, it will keep going through the rest of the list
• the regex you use is compiled EVERY SINGLE TIME -- this can be slow and irritating
• the regex you use will say ('foo','bar','blat') contains the element 'ar', even though it doesn't
• you shouldn't even correct the regex (that is, add the \A and \z anchors, and \Q and \E escapes), you should use $_ eq $bar
• DON'T USE GREP

$_="goto+F.print+chop;\n=yhpaj";F1:eval

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