• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• EXAMPLE

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));