use strict; use warnings; my @input_array = qw( N1 N2 N3 N6 N7 ); my @input_A = qw( N1 N3 N11 N11 N10 N16 ); my @input_B = qw( N3 N6 N2 N7 N16 N19 ); my %flags; $flags{$_} |= 1 for @input_array; $flags{$_} |= 2 for @input_A; $flags{$_} |= 4 for @input_B; my %primaryCCO; for (keys %flags) { next unless $flags{$_} & 1; print "$_: only 1 input is PI\n" if $flags{$_} == 3; print "$_: this is a wire\n" if $flags{$_} == 5; if( $flags{$_} == 7 ) { $primaryCCO{$_} = [1,1]; print "$_: CCO = ( @{$primaryCCO{$_}} )\n"; } }