abbrev(3)

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 orig-
       inal 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 v5.8.0                       2002-06-01                   Text::Abbrev(3)