Text::Abbrev(3p) | Perl Programmers Reference Guide | Text::Abbrev(3p)

# 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));

2013-03-25 | perl v5.40.1