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

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.

$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 v5.40.1 2025-07-03 Text::Abbrev(3perl)

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

use Text::Abbrev; abbrev $hashref, LIST