Manpages - Text_Abbrev.3perl

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

use Text::Abbrev; abbrev $hashref, LIST

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.

$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));