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[2023 Day #1 (Part 2)] Attempted solution - answer not accepted

I'm using this starter kit for the scaffolding so I can simply run mix test for the example and mix d01.p2 to run the solution for my specific data set.

I've got the following code that passes p1 completely and the p2 example but not my specific data set. I can't find any bugs but the result fails for being "too high" and I'm really not sure why this is not being accepted. I have the debug output for each step and running through it manually everything seems right to me.

Is anyone able to point me in the right direction on what I'm missing?

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I haven't studied your code but mine stumbled over this input line at one point:
eightjzqzhrllg1oneightfck
Simpler test:
12 oneight
Should yield 18 for part 2.
- Thank you for the test case! I went out for dinner but I'll work on this tomorrow. I strongly suspect this is the exact issue but I'm going to have to rework some things so I want to tackle it with a fresh mind.
- Thanks for this. Solved my problem.

I think it's related to the replacement of words with digits. There are some overlapping words, for example in "eightwothree" the "t" is used for both "eighT" and "Two". In this case the order of replacement differs your result. It either becomes "8wo3" or "eigh23".
- I think you may be right but the problem is at the end of the string. I'll add some test cases and rewrite the code. I think I'll have to ditch the regex replacements and scan through instead so I don't clobber the string in the wrong place.

I arrived at the following solution for Day #1:

Do share if you find the input that was causing trouble, I'm tripping on some miniscule error as well and i have no idea what could it be
- I just added this to my test case and when it passed the solution also passed:
  assert part2("12oneightfve") === 18
  
  Thanks, I managed to find the culprit in the end however - I was using a forward-look of 5 characters for finding if it matches a word so in a string of a3two for example, it would register the two before the 3. It was an easy fix once i found the issue.

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