I like kennethk's idea. But since you asked about a hash way, I'll show a way...see below. This of course is a memory hog! But 14,000 hash keys wouldn't necessarily be considered "huge". The code to build the hash look up table is simple and then you would just query it for values of $vector. How efficient this thing has to be is of course a matter of your application. Something like this might be more appropriate if the "lane buckets" weren't contiguous or if there were multiple ranges associated with each lane. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @lanes = ( [(200900..202543)],
              [(202544..204187)],
              [(204188..205831)],
              [(205832..207475)],
              [(207476..210119)],
              [(210120..211763)],
              [(211764..213407)],
              [(213408..215051)],
        );

my %hash;

my $lane =1;
foreach my $aref (@lanes)
{
   @hash{@$aref} = ($lane) x @$aref;
   $lane++;
}

my $vector = 210121;
print $hash{$vector};  #prints 6

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in thread match with elements in array by finder003

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