in reply to Looking for function similer to member() in SKILL

I assume you mean skill?
I'd use a hashtable in stead of an array, and let the key be the match you need, and the value 1.
open (FH,"filename here") or die; while ( my $line = <FH> ) { if ( $youhash->{$line} ) { #he, a match! } }
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