Text::Abbrev(3perl)

💖 NAME 💖

Text::Abbrev — aka abbrev — bestie, it creates an abbreviation table from a list ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Text::Abbrev;
abbrev $hashref, LIST

That's it, that's the whole vibe check 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea: abbrev takes every element in LIST and stores all unambiguous truncations of each one as keys in the associative array that $hashref points at 👑

and the values? the values are just the original list elements themselves, no cap 💅

so like. it's giving "type less, still get the right thing" energy 🌈

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🎀 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));

four ways to say the same thing and honestly? iconic 🦋

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lowkey obsessed that abbrev can rock with a scalar $hashref, a plain %hash, or even a typeglob *hash — it really said "any of these work, i don't gatekeep" 💜

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that's the whole page, bestie — go abbreviate something and slay 🧚✨

this was perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17, and yeah it's the Text::Abbrev(3perl) girl herself signing off 💖🌸 periodt 💅