in reply to searching 2 arrays
my @list_in = qw ( AB1/1 AB1/2 AB1/5 AB1/6 AB1/9 AB2/2 AB2/5 AB2/6 AB2/9 AB2/13); my @list_c = map {my $x = $_; $_ = grep(/$x/,@list_db) ? "$_ Found" : +"$_ Not Found"} @list_in; print "@list_c"; [download]