Welcome everyone to the 2023 advent of code! Thank you all for stopping by and participating in it in programming.dev whether youre new to the event or doing it again.

This is an unofficial community for the event as no official spot exists on lemmy but ill be running it as best I can with Sigmatics modding as well. Ill be running a solution megathread every day where you can share solutions with other participants to compare your answers and to see the things other people come up with


Day 1: Trebuchet?!


Megathread guidelines

  • Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
  • Code block support is not fully rolled out yet but likely will be in the middle of the event. Try to share solutions as both code blocks and using something such as https://topaz.github.io/paste/ or pastebin (code blocks to future proof it for when 0.19 comes out and since code blocks currently function in some apps and some instances as well if they are running a 0.19 beta)

FAQ

  • What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
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  • asyncrosaurus@programming.dev
    ·
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    [Language: C#]

    This isn't the most performant or elegant, it's the first one that worked. I have 3 kids and a full time job. If I get through any of these, it'll be first pass through and first try that gets the correct answer.

    Part 1 was very easy, just iterated the string checking if the char was a digit. Ditto for the last, by reversing the string. Part 2 was also not super hard, I settled on re-using the iterative approach, checking each string lookup value first (on a substring of the current char), and if the current char isn't the start of a word, then checking if the char was a digit. Getting the last number required reversing the string and the lookup map.

    Part 1:

    var list = new List((await File.ReadAllLinesAsync(@".\Day 1\PuzzleInput.txt")));
    
    int total = 0;
    foreach (var item in list)
    {
        //forward
        string digit1 = string.Empty;
        string digit2 = string.Empty;
    
    
        foreach (var c in item)
        {
            if ((int)c >= 48 && (int)c <= 57)
            {
                digit1 += c;
            
                break;
            }
        }
        //reverse
        foreach (var c in item.Reverse())
        {
            if ((int)c >= 48 && (int)c <= 57)
            {
                digit2 += c;
    
                break;
            }
    
        }
        total += Int32.Parse(digit1 +digit2);
    }
    
    Console.WriteLine(total);
    

    Part 2:

    var list = new List((await File.ReadAllLinesAsync(@".\Day 1\PuzzleInput.txt")));
    var numbers = new Dictionary() {
        {"one" ,   1}
        ,{"two" ,  2}
        ,{"three" , 3}
        ,{"four" , 4}
        ,{"five" , 5}
        ,{"six" , 6}
        ,{"seven" , 7}
        ,{"eight" , 8}
        , {"nine" , 9 }
    };
    int total = 0;
    string digit1 = string.Empty;
    string digit2 = string.Empty;
    foreach (var item in list)
    {
        //forward
        digit1 = getDigit(item, numbers);
        digit2 = getDigit(new string(item.Reverse().ToArray()), numbers.ToDictionary(k => new string(k.Key.Reverse().ToArray()), k => k.Value));
        total += Int32.Parse(digit1 + digit2);
    }
    
    Console.WriteLine(total);
    
    string getDigit(string item,                 Dictionary numbers)
    {
        int index = 0;
        int digit = 0;
        foreach (var c in item)
        {
            var sub = item.AsSpan(index++);
            foreach(var n in numbers)
            {
                if (sub.StartsWith(n.Key))
                {
                    digit = n.Value;
                    goto end;
                }
            }
    
            if ((int)c >= 48 && (int)c <= 57)
            {
                digit = ((int)c) - 48;
                break;
            }
        }
        end:
        return digit.ToString();
    }