Check if a variable exists in a list in Bash

Question

I am trying to write a script in bash that check the validity of a user input.
I want to match the input (say variable x) to a list of valid values.

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Answer 1

Thought I'd add my solution to the list.

# Checks if element "$1" is in array "$2"
# @NOTE:
#   Be sure that array is passed in the form:
#       "${ARR[@]}"
elementIn () {
    # shopt -s nocasematch # Can be useful to disable case-matching
    local e
    for e in "${@:2}"; do [[ "$e" == "$1" ]] && return 0; done
    return 1
}

# Usage:
list=(11 22 33)
item=22

if elementIn "$item" "${list[@]}"; then
    echo TRUE;
else
    echo FALSE
fi
# TRUE

item=44
elementIn $item "${list[@]}" && echo TRUE || echo FALSE
# FALSE