Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

[Mark Blackman]

On 7 Oct 2008, at 17:01, Chris Jack wrote:

> Mark Blackman mark at blackmans.org wrOte
>> List::Util::first > or > List::MoreUtils::any > for older perls,  
>> perhaps.
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> or even grep(/^$job$/, @list)

true, but I'd say a regex search is over the top for non regex searches.

List::MoreUtils uses C, so that appeals the pointless optimiser in me.

- Mark