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40 abbrev $hashref, LIST
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45 <p>Stores all unambiguous truncations of each element of LIST
46 as keys in the associative array referenced by
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47 The values are the original list elements.
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53 $hashref = abbrev qw(list edit send abort gripe);
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55 %hash = abbrev qw(list edit send abort gripe);
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57 abbrev $hashref, qw(list edit send abort gripe);
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59 abbrev(*hash, qw(list edit send abort gripe));
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