How can I compare arrays in Perl?

Question

I have two arrays, @a and @b. I want to do a compare among the elements of the two arrays.

my @a = qw\"abc def efg ghy klm ghn\";
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Answer 1

From the requirement that 'if any element matches', use the intersection of sets:

sub set{
  my %set = map { $_, undef }, @_;
  return sort keys %set;
}
sub compare{
    my ($listA,$listB) = @_;
    return ( (set(@$listA)-set(@$listB)) > 0)
}