my $muster ="1-5-4-bla2-sles8"; my @array =("i486-glibc22-linux","sles8"); foreach my $element(@array) { if($muster =~ /$element/) { # oder # if(index($muster,$element) != -1){ print "$element gefunden in $muster\n"; last; } else { print " nicht gefunden \n"; } }