Text::Abbrev(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Text::Abbrev(3pm)

NAME
       Text::Abbrev - abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list

SYNOPSIS
           use Text::Abbrev;
           abbrev $hashref, LIST

DESCRIPTION
       Stores all unambiguous truncations of each element of LIST as keys in
       the associative array referenced by $hashref.  The values are the
       original list elements.

EXAMPLE
           $hashref = abbrev qw(list edit send abort gripe);

           %hash = abbrev qw(list edit send abort gripe);

           abbrev $hashref, qw(list edit send abort gripe);

           abbrev(*hash, qw(list edit send abort gripe));



perl v5.16.3                      2013-03-04                 Text::Abbrev(3pm)