Self explanatory I hope. We dereference our data structure as shown to get the array. We then use grep to search through the array for $find. the \Q....\E quotematas $find so the metachars get escaped. You could do it one one line of course my @matches = grep {/\Q$find\E/} @{$HoL{$cluster}}; 

my %HoL = 

( 'cluster1' => [ 'remap.config', 'remap.config.hosts',
                  'origin.db', 'origin.db.hosts', 
                  'local_cluster.db', 'local_cluster.hosts' ]
);

my $cluster = 'cluster1';
my @array   = @{$HoL{$cluster}};
my $find    = 'remap.config.hosts';
my @matches = grep { /\Q$find\E/ }@array;

print "Found @matches" if @matches;

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Update

You should use $_ eq $find in the grep unless you need a regex. If the array is big a for loop like runrig suggested will be much faster. If you just want true/false scalar grep will save a useless array. Hope this helps

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: TestIs hash key a value contained in a hash of arrays? by tachyon
in thread TestIs hash key a value contained in a hash of arrays? by Tuna

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