MirOS Manual: Text::Abbrev(3p)

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

NAME

     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));

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