Elegant? Hard to say...

Smartmatch: 

perl -e 'my @t=qw/banana plum apple strawberry pea/;my $fruit="apple";
+print (($fruit~~\@t)?"yes":"no");'
yes

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Undef hash: 

perl -e 'my @t=qw/banana plum apple strawberry pea/;my $fruit="apple";
+my %in;undef @in{@t};print ((exists $in{$fruit})?"yes":"no");'
yes

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for,next,last: 

perl -e 'my @t=qw/banana plum apple strawberry pea/;my $fruit="apple";
+for my $f (@t) {next if $fruit ne $f;print "yes";last}'
yes

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grep? 

#no, not efficient

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English is not my mother tongue.
Les tongues de ma mère sont "made in France".

In reply to Re: check if a value is in a given set by brx
in thread check if a value is in a given set by Ratazong

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