88 lines
1.6 KiB
Perl
88 lines
1.6 KiB
Perl
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package Text::Abbrev;
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require 5.000;
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require Exporter;
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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 Text::Abbrev;
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abbrev $hashref, LIST
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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Stores all unambiguous truncations of each element of LIST
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as keys key in the associative array referenced to by C<$hashref>.
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The values are the original list elements.
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=head1 EXAMPLE
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$hashref = abbrev qw(list edit send abort gripe);
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%hash = abbrev qw(list edit send abort gripe);
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abbrev $hashref, qw(list edit send abort gripe);
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abbrev(*hash, qw(list edit send abort gripe));
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=cut
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@ISA = qw(Exporter);
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@EXPORT = qw(abbrev);
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# Usage:
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# &abbrev(*foo,LIST);
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# ...
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# $long = $foo{$short};
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sub abbrev {
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my (%domain);
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my ($name, $ref, $glob);
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if (ref($_[0])) { # hash reference preferably
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$ref = shift;
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} elsif ($_[0] =~ /^\*/) { # looks like a glob (deprecated)
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$glob = shift;
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}
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my @cmp = @_;
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foreach $name (@_) {
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my @extra = split(//,$name);
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my $abbrev = shift(@extra);
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my $len = 1;
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my $cmp;
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WORD: foreach $cmp (@cmp) {
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next if $cmp eq $name;
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while (substr($cmp,0,$len) eq $abbrev) {
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last WORD unless @extra;
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$abbrev .= shift(@extra);
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++$len;
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}
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}
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$domain{$abbrev} = $name;
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while (@extra) {
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$abbrev .= shift(@extra);
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$domain{$abbrev} = $name;
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}
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}
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if ($ref) {
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%$ref = %domain;
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return;
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} elsif ($glob) { # old style
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local (*hash) = $glob;
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%hash = %domain;
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return;
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}
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if (wantarray) {
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%domain;
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} else {
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\%domain;
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}
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}
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1;
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