Text::Abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
use Text::Abbrev; abbrev $hashref, LIST
Perl Programmers Reference Guide Text::Abbrev(3) 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)); ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+-----------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Availability | runtime/perl-532 | +---------------+-----------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through volatile | +---------------+-----------------------+ NOTES Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.32.0.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://www.perl.org/. perl v5.32.0 2020-06-14 Text::Abbrev(3)