perldoc > Text::Abbrev(3perl)

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));