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));