Text::Abbrev(3perl)

Text::Abbrev3perl

Abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list

Usage

    use Text::Abbrev;
    abbrev $hashref, LIST

Overview

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.

Examples

    $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));

Releases

13 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 12 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8
  8. 9
  9. 10
  10. 11
  11. 12
  12. 13
  13. Arch

From perl 5.44.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.