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 v5.38.2 2023-11-28 Text::Abbrev(3pm)
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