if listElement in aList:
... do stuff ...
In Perl you gotta do this with grep (or something else like that).
Although we can apparently look forward to the following constructs in Perl 6 (if I read this correctly):
# Do stuff if $list_element is in @a_list
if ($list_element =~ @a_list) {
... do stuff ...
}
# ... OR ...
# Loop through a bunch of list elements
foreach @list_elements {
# Do stuff if the current element is in @a_list
when @a_list { ... do stuff ... }
# If not in @a_list, what about @other_list ?
when @other_list { ... do stuff ... }
}
buckaduck