... my @record_types = qw(100 200 300 400 500); ... # Daten die reinkommen $record_type_found = substr($file_content,$position+12,3); foreach (@record_types) { if ($record_type_found == $_) { $record_type_status = "ok"; last; } $record_type_status = "not ok"; # } print $record_type_found, ": ", $record_type_status, "\n";