text::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 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));