Text::Abbrev

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Text::Abbrev(3)	       Perl Programmers Reference Guide	      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));



perl v5.8.8			  2001-09-21		      Text::Abbrev(3)