Day 3: Mull It Over

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  • Zarlin@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Nim

    import ../aoc, re, sequtils, strutils, math
    
    proc mulsum*(line:string):int=
      let matches = line.findAll(re"mul\([0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3}\)")
      let pairs = matches.mapIt(it[4..^2].split(',').map(parseInt))
      pairs.mapIt(it[0]*it[1]).sum
    
    proc filter*(line:string):int=
      var state = true;
      var i=0
      while i < line.len:
        if state:
          let off = line.find("don't()", i)
          if off == -1:
            break
          result += line[i..<off].mulsum
          i = off+6
          state = false
        else:
          let on = line.find("do()", i)
          if on == -1:
            break
          i = on+4
          state = true
          
      if state:
        result += line[i..^1].mulsum
    
    proc solve*(input:string): array[2,int] =
      #part 1&2
      result = [input.mulsum, input.filter]
    

    I had a nicer solution in mind for part 2, but for some reason nre didn’t want to work for me, and re couldn’t give me the start/end or all results, so I ended up doing this skip/toggle approach.

    Also initially I was doing it line by line out of habit from other puzzles, but then ofc the don't()s didn’t propagate to the next line.