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



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));



perl v5.12.4                                               2011-06-01                                          Text::Abbrev(3pm)