--- !ruby/object:RDoc::RI::MethodDescription 
aliases: []

block_params: 
comment: 
- !ruby/struct:RDoc::Markup::Flow::P 
  :body: 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 &quot;car&quot; and &quot;cone&quot;, the keys pointing to &quot;car&quot; would be &quot;ca&quot; and &quot;car&quot;, while those pointing to &quot;cone&quot; would be &quot;co&quot;, &quot;con&quot;, and &quot;cone&quot;.
- !ruby/struct:RDoc::Markup::Flow::P 
  :body: The optional <tt>pattern</tt> parameter is a pattern or a string. Only those input strings matching the pattern, or begging the string, are considered for inclusion in the output hash
full_name: Abbrev#abbrev
is_singleton: false
name: abbrev
params: (words, pattern = nil)
visibility: private
