in reply to searching 2 arrays

Hi,
	Try this one.

use strict;
use warnings;
local $\ = "\n";

my @DB    = qw(AB1/1 AB1/5 AB2/5);
my @Input = qw(AB1/1 AB1/2 AB1/5 AB1/6 AB1/9 AB2/2 AB2/5 AB2/6 AB2/9 AB2/13);

foreach my $elt(@Input){
	if(grep(/$elt/, @DB)){
		print $elt.': Found'
	}
	else{
		print $elt.': Not found';
	}
}

Thanks,
Rajesh.K