Add usage information

2 files changed, 29 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-081/jluis/perl/ch-1.pl b/challenge-081/jluis/perl/ch-1.pl
index 8549a26895..0563d11964 100644..100755
--- a/challenge-081/jluis/perl/ch-1.pl
+++ b/challenge-081/jluis/perl/ch-1.pl
@@ -2,12 +2,29 @@
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
+use 5.010;
+
+if ($#ARGV != 1) {
+   say <<USAGE;
+      
+        Returns the comon base strigs
+        Base strings are those that can generte the original by repetition 
+
+	ch-1.pl "aaaa" "aaaaaaaaaaaa" 
+	
+	returns ("a","aa","aa") the commom bases for the two strings
+USAGE
+   exit;
+} 
+my ($A,$B) = @ARGV;
+
+say format_list( common_base($A,$B) );
 
 sub base { 
-    # bassed on Abigil's prime number regex	
+    # bassed on Abigail's prime number regex	
     # get all base strings of $_[0] 
     # a base string is one that concateneted 0 or more times can generate 
-    # the original string
+    # the original string 
     my $orig = shift;
     my @bases;
     my $length = 1;
@@ -23,7 +40,7 @@ sub format_list {
 	my $out = "("; 
 	while (my $val = shift) {
 	    $out .= '"'.$val.'"';
-	    $out .= ',' if defined @_[0];
+	    $out .= ',' if defined $_[0];
         }
 	return "$out)";
 }
@@ -34,6 +51,7 @@ sub common_base {
     my @result;
     my $AIndex = 0;
     my $BIndex = 0;
+    #Both arrays are ordered by the length of its strings
     while ($AIndex  <= $#A and $BIndex <= $#B) {
 	   if ($A[$AIndex] eq $B[$BIndex]) {
 		   push @result,$A[$AIndex];
@@ -50,4 +68,3 @@ sub common_base {
     }
    return @result;
 }
-CORE::say format_list common_base 'aa'x210,'a'x105;
diff --git a/challenge-081/jluis/perl/ch-2.pl b/challenge-081/jluis/perl/ch-2.pl
index 010b34985f..a06a666220 100644..100755
--- a/challenge-081/jluis/perl/ch-2.pl
+++ b/challenge-081/jluis/perl/ch-2.pl
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use 5.010;
+say(<<USAGE)  and exit  if @ARGV;
+finds the frequency of all the words of input
+
+ch-2.pl must be called without any parameters it operates on a file caled input on the current dir
+
+USAGE
 
 open(my $input,'<','input') or die "Can't open input: $!";
 
@@ -8,7 +15,7 @@ my %freq;
 while(<$input>){
 	chomp;
 	s/\.|"|\(|\)|,|'s|--/ /g;
-	while (s/\s*(\w+)\s*//) {
+	while (/(\w+)/g) {
 		$freq{$1} = 0 unless defined $freq{$1};
 		$freq{$1} += 1;
 	}