I was thinking about how grep is so easy to use, yet must iterate through every item of a list, becoming a problem if you have a large list. I came up with this simple module as a counterpart if you just want to know if an item is a list member or not.

This is version 0.01 so I'm open to suggestions!

My goal is to create a function that has as similar of an iterface as possible to the grep builtin, but can be used more effectively in a logical yes/no context.

I'm aware that my ($item) = grep(/$pat/,@list); stops grep upon the first successful match. However, I feel that this code is a little awkward to use in the aforementioned logical context. 
package Text::Grap;

require Exporter;
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT_OK = qw( grap );

sub grap (&@) {

    my ($sub,@list) = @_;

    foreach (@list) {
        return 1 if ($sub->($_));
    }

}

1;

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And to use it... 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Text::Grap qw(grap);

my @questions = qw(who what when where why);
print grap(sub {/he/}, @questions) ? 'yes' : 'no';

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Update 1: Code changed to reflect betterworld's suggestions.

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It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.

In reply to RFC: Text::Grap by kwaping

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