Trying to check string against name of array

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I hope I get your problem right:
You have arrays a and b and you want to know which entries in b are also contained in a.

There are multiple ways to do that but the simples way would be to do a for loop like this that checks if an individual entry is in a list:

String b[]={"Your","array"};
String element_to_be_checked="Your element";
for(int i=0;i<b.length;i++){
    //To check if two strings are the same always use the equals method
    if(b[i].equals(element_to_be_checked)){
       println("Trait "+b[i]+"matches");
    }
}

This can be combined with a for loop to check the the array of traits from what you entered.

I hope this helps.