Text::Abbrev(3p) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Text::Abbrev(3p)NAMEText::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 v5.12.2 September 28, 2010