Calculate the set of unique abbreviations for a given set of strings.
require 'abbrev' require 'pp' pp Abbrev::abbrev(['ruby', 'rules']).sort
Generates:
[["rub", "ruby"], ["ruby", "ruby"], ["rul", "rules"], ["rule", "rules"], ["rules", "rules"]]
Also adds an abbrev method to class Array.
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| abbrev | Given a set of strings, calculate the set of unambiguous abbreviations for those strings, and return a hash where the keys are all the possible abbreviations and the values are the full strings. Thus, given input of "car" and "cone", the keys pointing to "car" would be "ca" and "car", while those pointing to "cone" would be "co", "con", and "cone". |
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