roolic's answer is flawed. Building a hash is smart, but building it over and over again is dumb. Even

sub exists { 
  my ($array, $value) = @_; 
  return grep $_ eq $value, @$array;
}

exists( $arr_ref, $value ) ? 'yes' : ''
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sub exists { 
  my ($array, $value) = @_; 
  my %all_vals = map { $_=>1 } @{$array}; 
  return $all_vals{$value};
}

exists( $arr_ref, $value ) ? 'yes' : ''
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Hi all, thanks for all your input, help and suggestions. Although some of the examples are difficult to understand but I appreciate the effort... I'm beginning to get the idea and concept and will do some study on some these examples given here...

The reason I cross post to a few forums is I will get as many examples as possible with one that I hopefully will understand... Will take note of that in the future.

Thanks again all

The reason I cross post to a few forums is I will get as many examples as possible

This is of course the only reason why people crosspost. But if you do this, you should at the very least include in your posting where you crosspost.
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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>