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 v5.22.1                                       2020-10-19                                Text::Abbrev(3perl)