# Text::Abbrev - phpMan

## 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));