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abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
use Text::Abbrev; abbrev $hashref, LIST
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.
$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));