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

NAME
       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 v5.14.2							    2011-09-26						       Text::Abbrev(3perl)