Text::Abbrev(3perPerl Programmers Reference GuText::Abbrev(v)



NAME
       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 v5.6.1                 2001-02-23        Text::Abbrev(v)