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

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));

perl v5.16.3                      2013-03-04                 Text::Abbrev(3pm)