


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


NAME
       Text::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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