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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));
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