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If you want to determine "Does XYZ exist in the list ABC?", you want to store ABC as the keys in a hash. Then, lookup is very quick.

Note: Re-read your post and try and look at it from the point of view we have - we don't work with you. This means we're missing a lot of the context you have when talking about your problem.

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