| 
 |  | 
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));