Accessing Perl Array in JavaScript

Question

I have an array of unknown size in perl generated by some other perl module. Now, precisely I want to find if a value passed to a jquery function exists in the perl array or not

Answer 1

To check for existence, you'd want a hash. A simple way of transmitting the data would be to encode it using JSON.

% use JSON qw( );

For example, if get_values() returned apple and orange, you'd get

I don't know Mason, so there could be errors, but you get the idea.