Text::Abbrev(3pm)

Text::Abbrev3pm

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 key in the associative array referenced to 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

6 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2–1.3
  3. 2.0
  4. 2.1
  5. 2.2

From perl-5.004-doc 5.004.05-6 in Debian 2.2 (Potato). Also shipped by perl-5.005-doc. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.