Perl 5 version documentation

Text::Abbrev

NAME

Text::Abbrev - abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list

SYNOPSIS

  1.     use Text::Abbrev;
  2.     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

  1.     $hashref = abbrev qw(list edit send abort gripe);
  3.     %hash = abbrev qw(list edit send abort gripe);
  5.     abbrev $hashref, qw(list edit send abort gripe);
  7.     abbrev(*hash, qw(list edit send abort gripe));