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+# prefix_match
+
+Abbreviated multi-part command / word sequence recognition.
+
+Supports partial match (only some command words), individual multi-part command word abbreviating,
+as well as (obviously) simple single-word commands and their abbreviations.
+
+Can recognize things like `"ip i s d"` as `"ip interface set down"` or `"r a"` as `"route add"`,
+if there is no ambiguity among the provided options. Supports more than one delimiter at a time 
+(e.g, colon, hyphen, underscore, space, tab, whatever). Leading and trailing delimiters and
+duplicate delimiters are ignored.
+
+Inspect the unit test suite and doc comments in the header file for more info and examples of use.