Re: How to match string inside of array?

somebody wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:19:28 +0000, Jürgen Exner wrote:
>
>> somebody wrote:
>>> How do I check if $myvar matches 'two' in @arr?
>>
>> perldoc -q contains
>
> I don't seem to have that. Is it a separate module?
>
> mybox:> perldoc -q contains
> No documentation for perl FAQ keyword `contains' found

Strange. I get

E:\>perldoc -q contains
Found in E:\[...]\perlfaq4.pod
How can I tell whether a list or array contains a certain element?


jue


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