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You'd have to try a lot harder for me to think you were being rude...with apologies to Douglas Adams, I eat ruder things than you with my breakfast cereal :)

The PBP portion of my post was really the IO::Prompt stuff. That early in the morning, I was confusing PBP and "Perl 6 Now" when I pulled in the Switch module. Thanks for pointing it out, I shouldn't have given the impression that the Switch idea was a Damian recommendation.

As to your other comment, I'm dragging this morning, and am not seeing what you're suggesting. Could you enlighten me?

Thanks,
~jeff

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Re^4: matching a regular expression
by japhy (Canon) on May 18, 2006 at 17:49 UTC
    What I meant was, writing "h|hs|hsb|hsbn" yourself is tedious. Better to have Perl generate that for you: 
    my %abbrevs = map {
  my $word = $_;
  ($word => join("|", map { substr($word, 1, $_) } 1 .. length($word) 
+}))
} qw( hsbn admin ... );

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      Thanks. I agree it seemed tedious, but no better method was jumping to mind. I like that solution!
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