php - How to shorten `if-statement` -

i have if statement in foreach loop. condition 125 characters long. there other ways shorten this?

if ($col == 'foo' || $col == 'bar' || $col == 'baz' || $col == 'fubar' || $col == 'spam' || $col == 'eggs') {     continue; }

note: sorry confusion on condition values guys, 'a', 'b', ... meant various strings.

store elements in single dimension array first, in case like:

$array = array('a','b','c','d','e','f');

then use php in built function in_array() check whether $col exists in array, in looks like:

in_array($col, $array);

entire code:

$array = array('a','b','c','d','e','f'); if(in_array($col, $array)) {     continue; }

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