Text::Abbrev
abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
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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));