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authorJason Downs <downsj@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-08-19 10:13:38 +0000
committerJason Downs <downsj@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-08-19 10:13:38 +0000
commit14856225739aa48b6c9cf4c17925362b2d95cea3 (patch)
treedfd38f1b654fb5bbdfc38887c1a829b658e71530 /gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/abbrev.pl
parent77469082517e44fe6ca347d9e8dc7dffd1583637 (diff)
Import of Perl 5.003 into the tree. Makefile.bsd-wrapper and
config.sh.OpenBSD are the only local changes.
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+;# Usage:
+;# %foo = ();
+;# &abbrev(*foo,LIST);
+;# ...
+;# $long = $foo{$short};
+
+package abbrev;
+
+sub main'abbrev {
+ local(*domain) = @_;
+ shift(@_);
+ @cmp = @_;
+ local($[) = 0;
+ foreach $name (@_) {
+ @extra = split(//,$name);
+ $abbrev = shift(@extra);
+ $len = 1;
+ foreach $cmp (@cmp) {
+ next if $cmp eq $name;
+ while (substr($cmp,0,$len) eq $abbrev) {
+ $abbrev .= shift(@extra);
+ ++$len;
+ }
+ }
+ $domain{$abbrev} = $name;
+ while ($#extra >= 0) {
+ $abbrev .= shift(@extra);
+ $domain{$abbrev} = $name;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+1;