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- =head1 NAME
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- abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
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- =head1 SYNOPSIS
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- use Abbrev;
- abbrev *HASH, LIST
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- =head1 DESCRIPTION
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- Stores all unambiguous truncations of each element of LIST
- as keys key in the associative array indicated by C<*hash>.
- The values are the original list elements.
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- =head1 EXAMPLE
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- abbrev(*hash,qw("list edit send abort gripe"));
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