Text::Abbrev(3)

NAME
     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 key in
     the associative array referenced to 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));