../Text/Abbrev.pm
abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
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use Abbrev;
abbrev *HASH, LIST
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Stores all unambiguous truncations of each element of LIST
as keys key in the associative array indicated by *hash.
The values are the original list elements.
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abbrev(*hash,qw("list edit send abort gripe"));
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