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  • I had to give Uiua another go today. (run it here)

    {"Card 1: 41 48 83 86 17 | 83 86  6 31 17  9 48 53"
     "Card 2: 13 32 20 16 61 | 61 30 68 82 17 32 24 19"
     "Card 3:  1 21 53 59 44 | 69 82 63 72 16 21 14  1"
     "Card 4: 41 92 73 84 69 | 59 84 76 51 58  5 54 83"
     "Card 5: 87 83 26 28 32 | 88 30 70 12 93 22 82 36"
     "Card 6: 31 18 13 56 72 | 74 77 10 23 35 67 36 11"}
    
    LtoDec ← ∧(+ ×10:) :0
    StoDec ← LtoDec▽≥0. ▽≤9. -@0
    
    # Split on spaces, drop dross, parse ints
    ≡(⊜□≠0.⊐∵(StoDec)↘ 2⊜(□)≠@\s.⊔)
    
    # Find matches
    ≡(/+/+⊠(⌕)⊃(⊔⊢↙ 1)(⊔⊢↙¯1))
    
    # part 1
    /+ⁿ:2-1 ▽±..
    
    # part 2 - start with matches and initial counts
    =..:
    # len times: get 1st of each, rotate both, add new counts
    ⍥(⬚0+↯: ⊙⊙∩(↻1) ⊙:∩(⊢.))⧻.
    /+⊙;
    
  • Rust

    This one wasn't too bad. The example for part 2 even tells you how to process everything by visiting each card once in order. Another option could be to recursively look at all won copies, but that's probably much less efficient.

  • Nim

    This one was pretty simple, just parse the numbers into sets and check the size of the intersection. Part 2 just made the scoring mechanism a little more complicated.

    • That's some elegant code! Then again, I suppose that's the beauty of nim.

      • I'm rather spoiled by python, so I feel like it could be more elegant. xD

        But yeah, I do like how this one turned out, and nim runs a whole lot faster than python does. I really like nim's "method call syntax". Instead of having methods associated with an individual type, you can just call any procedure as x.f(remaining_args) to call f with x as its first argument. Makes it easy to chain procedures. Since nim is strongly typed, it'll know which procedure you mean to use by the signature.

    • Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !nim@programming.dev

  • LANGUAGE: Nim

    Welcome to the advent of parsing!
    Took me a lot more time than it should (Please, don't check prior commits 😅).

    day_04.nim

    • Please, don't check prior commits

      This should be the motto of AoC

  • Haskell

    11:39 -- I spent most of the time reading the scoring rules and (as usual) writing a parser...

    import Control.Monad
    import Data.Bifunctor
    import Data.List
    
    readCard :: String -> ([Int], [Int])
    readCard =
      join bimap (map read) . second tail . break (== "|") . words . tail . dropWhile (/= ':')
    
    countShared = length . uncurry intersect
    
    part1 = sum . map ((\n -> if n > 0 then 2 ^ (n - 1) else 0) . countShared)
    
    part2 = sum . foldr ((\n a -> 1 + sum (take n a) : a) . countShared) []
    
    main = do
      input <- map readCard . lines <$> readFile "input04"
      print $ part1 input
      print $ part2 input
    
  • Dart Solution

    Okay, that's more like it. Simple parsing and a bit of recursion, and fits on one screen. Perfect for day 4 :-)

    int matchCount(String line) => line
        .split(RegExp('[:|]'))
        .skip(1)
        .map((ee) => ee.trim().split(RegExp(r'\s+')).map(int.parse))
        .map((e) => e.toSet())
        .reduce((s, t) => s.intersection(t))
        .length;
    
    late List matches;
    late List totals;
    
    int scoreFor(int ix) {
      if (totals[ix] != 0) return totals[ix];
      return totals[ix] =
          [for (var m in 0.to(matches[ix])) scoreFor(m + ix + 1) + 1].sum;
    }
    
    part1(List lines) =>
        lines.map((e) => pow(2, matchCount(e) - 1).toInt()).sum;
    
    part2(List lines) {
      matches = [for (var e in lines) matchCount(e)];
      totals = List.filled(matches.length, 0);
      return matches.length + 0.to(matches.length).map(scoreFor).sum;
    }
    
  • (python) Much easier than day 3.

    code
    import pathlib
    
    base_dir = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent
    filename = base_dir / "day4_input.txt"
    
    with open(base_dir / filename) as f:
        lines = f.read().splitlines()
    
    score = 0
    
    extra_cards = [0 for _ in lines]
    n_cards = [1 for _ in lines]
    
    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
        _, numbers = line.split(":")
        winning, have = numbers.split(" | ")
    
        winning_numbers = {int(n) for n in winning.split()}
        have_numbers = {int(n) for n in have.split()}
    
        have_winning_numbers = winning_numbers & have_numbers
        n_matches = len(have_winning_numbers)
    
        if n_matches:
            score += 2 ** (n_matches - 1)
    
        j = i + 1
        for _ in range(n_matches):
            if j >= len(lines):
                break
            n_cards[j] += n_cards[i]
            j += 1
    
    answer_p1 = score
    print(f"{answer_p1=}")
    
    answer_p2 = sum(n_cards)
    print(f"{answer_p2=}")
    
  • Factor on github (with comments and imports):

    : line>cards ( line -- winning-nums player-nums )
      ":|" split rest
      [
        [ CHAR: space = ] trim
        split-words harvest [ string>number ] map
      ] map first2
    ;
    
    : points ( winning-nums player-nums -- n )
      intersect length
      dup 0 > [ 1 - 2^ ] when
    ;
    
    : part1 ( -- )
      "vocab:aoc-2023/day04/input.txt" utf8 file-lines
      [ line>cards points ] map-sum .
    ;
    
    : follow-card ( i commons -- n )
      [ 1 ] 2dip
      2dup nth swapd
      over + (a..b]
      [ over follow-card ] map-sum
      nip +
    ;
    
    : part2 ( -- )
      "vocab:aoc-2023/day04/input.txt" utf8 file-lines
      [ line>cards intersect length ] map
      dup length  swap '[ _ follow-card ]
      map-sum .
    ;
    
  • Python

    Questions and feedback welcome!

    import collections
    import re
    
    from .solver import Solver
    
    class Day04(Solver):
      def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(4)
        self.cards = []
    
      def presolve(self, input: str):
        lines = input.rstrip().split('\n')
        self.cards = []
        for line in lines:
          left, right = re.split(r' +\| +', re.split(': +', line)[1])
          left, right = map(int, re.split(' +', left)), map(int, re.split(' +', right))
          self.cards.append((list(left), list(right)))
    
      def solve_first_star(self):
        points = 0
        for winning, having in self.cards:
          matches = len(set(winning) & set(having))
          if not matches:
            continue
          points += 1 << (matches - 1)
        return points
    
      def solve_second_star(self):
        factors = collections.defaultdict(lambda: 1)
        count = 0
        for i, (winning, having) in enumerate(self.cards):
          count += factors[i]
          matches = len(set(winning) & set(having))
          if not matches:
            continue
          for j in range(i + 1, i + 1 + matches):
            factors[j] = factors[j] + factors[i]
        return count
    
  • Ruby

    !ruby@programming.dev

    Somehow took way longer on the second part than the first part trying a recursive approach and then realizing that was dumb.

    https://github.com/snowe2010/advent-of-code/blob/master/ruby_aoc/2023/day04/day04.rb

    • Edit: Sorry, should have read your code first, you made it work too. if it works it works, Recursive solutions just click for me over other solutions.

      I made the recursion work, went to a depth of 24 for my input set.

      Recursive C#
      internal class Day4Task2 : IRunnable
          {
              private Regex _regex = new Regex("Card\\s*\\d*: ([\\d\\s]{2} )*\\|( [\\d\\s]{2})*");
              private Dictionary _matchCountCache = new Dictionary();
              private int _maxDepth = 0;
      
              public void Run()
              {
                  var inputLines = File.ReadAllLines("Days/Four/Day4Input.txt");
                  int sumScore = 0;
      
                  for (int i = 0; i < inputLines.Length; i++)
                  {
                      sumScore += ScoreCard(i, inputLines, 0);
                      Console.WriteLine("!!!" + i + "!!!");
                  }
      
                  Console.WriteLine("Sum:"+sumScore.ToString());
                  Console.WriteLine("Max Recursion Depth:"+ _maxDepth.ToString());
              }
      
              private int ScoreCard(int lineId, string[] inputLines, int depth)
              {
                  if( depth > _maxDepth )
                  {
                      _maxDepth = depth;
                  }
      
                  if(lineId >= inputLines.Length)
                  {
                      return 0;
                  }
      
                  int matchCount = 0;
      
                  if (!_matchCountCache.ContainsKey(lineId)) {
      
                      var winningSet = new HashSet();
                      var matches = _regex.Match(inputLines[lineId]);
                      foreach (Capture capture in matches.Groups[1].Captures)
                      {
                          winningSet.Add(capture.Value.Trim());
                      }
      
                      foreach (Capture capture in matches.Groups[2].Captures)
                      {
                          if (winningSet.Contains(capture.Value.Trim()))
                          {
                              matchCount++;
                          }
                      }
      
                      _matchCountCache[lineId] = matchCount;
                  }
      
                  matchCount = _matchCountCache[lineId];
      
                  int totalCards = 1;
                  while(matchCount > 0)
                  {
                      totalCards += ScoreCard(lineId+matchCount, inputLines, depth+1);
                      matchCount--;
                  }
                  //Console.WriteLine("Finished processing id: " + lineId + " Sum is: " + totalCards);
                  return totalCards;
              }
          }
      
  • I enjoyed this one. It was a nice simple break after Days 1 and 3; the type of basic puzzle I expect from the first few days of Advent of Code. Pretty simple logic in this one, I don't think I would change too much. I'm sure I'll find a way to clean up how it's written a bit, but I'm happy with this one today.

    https://github.com/capitalpb/advent_of_code_2023/blob/main/src/solvers/day04.rs

    struct Scratchcard {
        winning_numbers: HashSet,
        player_numbers: HashSet,
    }
    
    impl Scratchcard {
        fn from(input: &str) -> Scratchcard {
            let (_, numbers) = input.split_once(':').unwrap();
            let (winning_numbers, player_numbers) = numbers.split_once('|').unwrap();
            let winning_numbers = winning_numbers
                .split_ascii_whitespace()
                .filter_map(|number| number.parse::().ok())
                .collect::>();
            let player_numbers = player_numbers
                .split_ascii_whitespace()
                .filter_map(|number| number.parse::().ok())
                .collect::>();
    
            Scratchcard {
                winning_numbers,
                player_numbers,
            }
        }
    
        fn matches(&self) -> u32 {
            self.winning_numbers
                .intersection(&self.player_numbers)
                .count() as u32
        }
    }
    
    pub struct Day04;
    
    impl Solver for Day04 {
        fn star_one(&self, input: &str) -> String {
            input
                .lines()
                .map(Scratchcard::from)
                .map(|card| {
                    let matches = card.matches();
                    if matches == 0 {
                        0
                    } else {
                        2u32.pow(matches - 1)
                    }
                })
                .sum::()
                .to_string()
        }
    
        fn star_two(&self, input: &str) -> String {
            let cards: Vec = input.lines().map(Scratchcard::from).collect();
            let mut card_counts = vec![1usize; cards.len()];
    
            for card_number in 0..cards.len() {
                let matches = cards[card_number].matches();
    
                if matches == 0 {
                    continue;
                }
    
                for i in 1..=matches {
                    card_counts[card_number + i as usize] += card_counts[card_number];
                }
            }
    
            card_counts.iter().sum::().to_string()
        }
    }
    
  • APL

    I'm using this years' AoC to learn (Dyalog) APL, so this is probably terrible code. I'm happy to receive pointers for improvement, particularly if there is a way to write the same logic with tacit functions or inner/outer products that I missed.

    input←⊃⎕NGET'inputs/day4.txt'1
    num_matches←'Card [ \d]+: ([ 0-9]+) \| ([ 0-9]+)'⎕S{≢↑∩/0~⍨¨{,⎕CSV⍠'Separator' ' '⊢⍵'S'3}¨⍵.(1↓Lengths↑¨Offsets↓¨⊂Block)} input
    ⎕←+/2*1-⍨0~⍨num_matches ⍝ part 1
    ⎕←+/{⍺←0 ⋄ ⍺=≢⍵:⍵ ⋄ (⍺+1)∇⍵ + (≢⍵)↑∊((⍺+1)⍴0)(num_matches[⍺]⍴⍵[⍺])((≢⍵)⍴0)}(≢num_matches)⍴1 ⍝ part 2
    
  • Language: C

    Another day of parsing, another day of strsep() to the rescue. Today was one of those satisfying days where the puzzle text is complicated but the solution is simple once well understood.

    GitHub link

    Code (29 lines)
    int main()
    {
    	char line[128], *rest, *tok;
    	int nextra[200]={0}, nums[10], nnums;
    	int p1=0,p2=0, id,val,nmatch, i;
    
    	for (id=0; (rest = fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin)); id++) {
    		nnums = nmatch = 0;
    
    		while ((tok = strsep(&rest, " ")) && !strchr(tok, ':'))
    			;
    		while ((tok = strsep(&rest, " ")) && !strchr(tok, '|'))
    			if ((val = atoi(tok)))
    				nums[nnums++] = val;
    		while ((tok = strsep(&rest, " ")))
    			if ((val = atoi(tok)))
    				for (i=0; i
  • Language: Python

    Github

    Catching up missed days.

  • Crystal

    late because I had to skip two days of aoc. Fairly easy

    input =  File.read("input.txt").lines
    
    sum = 0
    winnings = Array.new(input.size) {[1, 0]}
    input.each_with_index do |line, i|
    	card, values = line.split(":")
    	nums = values.split("|").map(&.split.map(&.to_i))
    
    	points = 0
    	nums[1].each do |num|
    		if nums[0].includes?(num)
    			points = points == 0 ? 1 : points * 2
    			winnings[i][1] += 1
    	end    end
    	sum += points
    end
    puts sum
    
    winnings.each_with_index do |card, i|
    	next if card[1] == 0
    	(1..card[1]).each do |n|
    		winnings[i+n][0] += card[0]
    end    end
    puts winnings.sum(&.[0])
    
  • Nice and easy.

    Lua
    -- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Jummit
    --
    -- SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
    
    local function nums(str)
    	local res = {}
    	for num in str:gmatch("%d+") do
    		res[num] = true
    	end
    	return res
    end
    
    local cards = {}
    local points = 0
    for line in io.open("4.input"):lines() do
    	local winning, have = line:match("Card%s*%d+: (.*) | (.*)")
    	winning = nums(winning)
    	have = nums(have)
    	local first = true
    	local score = 0
    	local matching = 0
    	for num in pairs(have) do
    		if winning[num] then
    			matching = matching + 1
    			if first then
    				first = false
    				score = score + 1
    			else
    				score = score * 2
    			end
    		end
    	end
    	points = points + score
    	table.insert(cards, {have=have, wins=matching, count=1})
    end
    print(points)
    
    local cardSum = 0
    for i, card in ipairs(cards) do
    	cardSum = cardSum + card.count
    	for n = i + 1, i + card.wins do
    		cards[n].count = cards[n].count + card.count
    	end
    end
    print(cardSum)
    
  • Feels like the challenges are getting easier than harder currently. Fairly straightforward when doing it the lazy way with python.

    Python
    import re
    
    winning_number_pattern: re.Pattern = re.compile(r' +([\d ]*?) +\|')
    lottery_number_pattern: re.Pattern = re.compile(r'\| +([\d ]*)')
    
    
    def get_winning_numbers(line: str) -> set[str]:
        return set(winning_number_pattern.search(line).group(1).split())
    
    
    def get_lottery_numbers(line: str) -> set[str]:
        return set(lottery_number_pattern.search(line).group(1).split())
    
    
    def get_winnings(winning_numbers: set[str], lottery_numbers: set[str]) -> int:
        return int(2 ** (len(winning_numbers.intersection(lottery_numbers)) - 1))
    
    
    def puzzle_1() -> int:
        points: int = 0
        with open('day4_scratchcards.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
            for line in file:
                points += get_winnings(get_winning_numbers(line), get_lottery_numbers(line))
        return points
    
    
    class ScratchCard:
        def __init__(self, line: str):
            self.amount: int = 1
            self.winnings: int = len(get_winning_numbers(line).intersection(get_lottery_numbers(line)))
    
        def update(self, extra: int) -> None:
            self.amount = self.amount + extra
    
        def __radd__(self, other):
            return self.amount + other
    
    
    def puzzle_2() -> int:
        scratch_card_list: list[ScratchCard] = []
        with open('day4_scratchcards.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
            for line in file:
                scratch_card_list.append(ScratchCard(line))
    
        for i, scratch_card in enumerate(scratch_card_list):
            for j in range(1, scratch_card.winnings + 1):
                try:
                    scratch_card_list[i + j].update(scratch_card.amount)
                except IndexError:
                    pass
        return sum(scratch_card_list)
    
    
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        print(puzzle_1())
        print(puzzle_2())
    
    • Puzzles on the weekend are usually a bit more involved than weekdays. 23 is probably going to be a monster this year...

    • That int-call on the return value for the point value is a good idea. I manually returned 0 if there were no matches.

      • I personally would prefer the if check and return 0 in most instances just because it's clearer and more readable. But the two previous functions were one-liners so it just looked better if get_winnings() also was.

  • C# Recursion Time! (max depth 24)

    Today I learnt how to get multiple captures out of the same group in Regex. I also learnt how much a console line write slows down your app.... (2 seconds without, never finished with)

    Task1
    internal class Day4Task1 : IRunnable
        {
            public void Run()
            {
                var inputLines = File.ReadAllLines("Days/Four/Day4Input.txt");
                var regex = new Regex("Card\\s*\\d*: ([\\d\\s]{2} )*\\|( [\\d\\s]{2})*");
                int sumScore = 0;
    
                foreach (var line in inputLines)
                {
                    int lineScore = 0;
                    var winningSet = new HashSet();
                    var matches = regex.Match(line);
                    foreach(Capture capture in matches.Groups[1].Captures) {
                        
                        winningSet.Add(capture.Value.Trim());
                    }
    
                    foreach (Capture capture in matches.Groups[2].Captures)
                    {
                        if(winningSet.Contains(capture.Value.Trim()))
                        {
                            lineScore = lineScore == 0 ? 1 : lineScore * 2;
                        }
                    }
    
                    sumScore += lineScore;
                    Console.WriteLine(lineScore.ToString());
    
                }
    
                Console.WriteLine("Sum:"+sumScore.ToString());
            }
        }
    
    Task2
    internal class Day4Task2 : IRunnable
        {
            private Regex _regex = new Regex("Card\\s*\\d*: ([\\d\\s]{2} )*\\|( [\\d\\s]{2})*");
            private Dictionary _matchCountCache = new Dictionary();
            private int _maxDepth = 0;
    
            public void Run()
            {
                var inputLines = File.ReadAllLines("Days/Four/Day4Input.txt");
                int sumScore = 0;
    
                for (int i = 0; i < inputLines.Length; i++)
                {
                    sumScore += ScoreCard(i, inputLines, 0);
                    Console.WriteLine("!!!" + i + "!!!");
                }
    
                Console.WriteLine("Sum:"+sumScore.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("Max Recursion Depth:"+ _maxDepth.ToString());
            }
    
            private int ScoreCard(int lineId, string[] inputLines, int depth)
            {
                if( depth > _maxDepth )
                {
                    _maxDepth = depth;
                }
    
                if(lineId >= inputLines.Length)
                {
                    return 0;
                }
    
                int matchCount = 0;
    
                if (!_matchCountCache.ContainsKey(lineId)) {
    
                    var winningSet = new HashSet();
                    var matches = _regex.Match(inputLines[lineId]);
                    foreach (Capture capture in matches.Groups[1].Captures)
                    {
                        winningSet.Add(capture.Value.Trim());
                    }
    
                    foreach (Capture capture in matches.Groups[2].Captures)
                    {
                        if (winningSet.Contains(capture.Value.Trim()))
                        {
                            matchCount++;
                        }
                    }
    
                    _matchCountCache[lineId] = matchCount;
                }
    
                matchCount = _matchCountCache[lineId];
    
                int totalCards = 1;
                while(matchCount > 0)
                {
                    totalCards += ScoreCard(lineId+matchCount, inputLines, depth+1);
                    matchCount--;
                }
                //Console.WriteLine("Finished processing id: " + lineId + " Sum is: " + totalCards);
                return totalCards;
            }
        }
    
  • My solution in C for part 1: https://git.sr.ht/~aidenisik/aoc23/tree/master/item/day4

    I've been running a day behind the whole time since I forgot about it on day 1, I should really catch up.

    EDIT: Part 2 is also uploaded.

  • Language: Python

    Part 1

    Sets really came in handy for this challenge, as did recognizing that you can use powers of two to compute the points for each card. I tried using a regular expression to parse each card, but ended up just doing it manually with split :|

    Numbers = set[int]
    Card    = list[Numbers]
    
    def read_cards(stream=sys.stdin) -> Iterator[Card]:
        for line in stream:
            yield [set(map(int, n.split())) for n in line.split(':')[-1].split('|')]
    
    def main(stream=sys.stdin) -> None:
        cards  = [numbers & winning for winning, numbers in read_cards(stream)]
        points = sum(2**(len(card)-1) for card in cards if card)
        print(points)
    
    Part 2

    This took me longer than I wished... I had to think about it carefully before seeing how you can just keep track of the counts of each card, and then when you get to that card, you add to its copies your current count.

    def main(stream=sys.stdin) -> None:
        cards  = [numbers & winning for winning, numbers in read_cards(stream)]
        counts = defaultdict(int)
    
        for index, card in enumerate(cards, 1):
            counts[index] += 1
            for copy in range(index + 1, index + len(card) + 1):
                counts[copy] += counts[index]
    
        print(sum(counts.values()))
    

    GitHub Repo

  • Late as always (actually a day late by UK time).

    My solution to this one runs slow, but it gets the job done. I didn't actually need the CardInfo struct by the time I was done, but couldn't be bothered to remove it. Previously, it held more than just count.

    Day 04 in Rust 🦀

    View formatted on GitLab

    use std::{
        collections::BTreeMap,
        env, fs,
        io::{self, BufRead, BufReader, Read},
    };
    
    fn main() -> io::Result<()> {
        let args: Vec = env::args().collect();
        let filename = &args[1];
        let file1 = fs::File::open(filename)?;
        let file2 = fs::File::open(filename)?;
        let reader1 = BufReader::new(file1);
        let reader2 = BufReader::new(file2);
    
        println!("Part one: {}", process_part_one(reader1));
        println!("Part two: {}", process_part_two(reader2));
        Ok(())
    }
    
    fn process_part_one(reader: BufReader) -> u32 {
        let mut sum = 0;
        for line in reader.lines().flatten() {
            let card_data: Vec<_> = line.split(": ").collect();
            let all_numbers = card_data[1];
            let number_parts: Vec> = all_numbers
                .split('|')
                .map(|x| {
                    x.replace("  ", " ")
                        .split_whitespace()
                        .map(|val| val.to_string())
                        .collect()
                })
                .collect();
            let (winning_nums, owned_nums) = (&number_parts[0], &number_parts[1]);
            let matches = owned_nums
                .iter()
                .filter(|num| winning_nums.contains(num))
                .count();
            if matches > 0 {
                sum += 2_u32.pow((matches - 1) as u32);
            }
        }
        sum
    }
    
    #[derive(Debug)]
    struct CardInfo {
        count: u32,
    }
    
    fn process_part_two(reader: BufReader) -> u32 {
        let mut cards: BTreeMap = BTreeMap::new();
        for line in reader.lines().flatten() {
            let card_data: Vec<_> = line.split(": ").collect();
            let card_id: u32 = card_data[0]
                .replace("Card", "")
                .trim()
                .parse()
                .expect("is digit");
            let all_numbers = card_data[1];
            let number_parts: Vec> = all_numbers
                .split('|')
                .map(|x| {
                    x.replace("  ", " ")
                        .split_whitespace()
                        .map(|val| val.to_string())
                        .collect()
                })
                .collect();
            let (winning_nums, owned_nums) = (&number_parts[0], &number_parts[1]);
            let matches = owned_nums
                .iter()
                .filter(|num| winning_nums.contains(num))
                .count();
            let card_details = CardInfo { count: 1 };
            if let Some(old_card_info) = cards.insert(card_id, card_details) {
                let card_entry = cards.get_mut(&card_id);
                card_entry.expect("card exists").count += old_card_info.count;
            };
            let current_card = cards.get(&card_id).expect("card exists");
            if matches > 0 {
                for _ in 0..current_card.count {
                    for i in (card_id + 1)..=(matches as u32) + card_id {
                        let new_card_info = CardInfo { count: 1 };
                        if let Some(old_card_info) = cards.insert(i, new_card_info) {
                            let card_entry = cards.get_mut(&i).expect("card exists");
                            card_entry.count += old_card_info.count;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        let sum = cards.iter().fold(0, |acc, c| acc + c.1.count);
        sum
    }
    
    #[cfg(test)]
    mod tests {
        use super::*;
    
        const INPUT: &str = "Card 1: 41 48 83 86 17 | 83 86  6 31 17  9 48 53
    Card 2: 13 32 20 16 61 | 61 30 68 82 17 32 24 19
    Card 3:  1 21 53 59 44 | 69 82 63 72 16 21 14  1
    Card 4: 41 92 73 84 69 | 59 84 76 51 58  5 54 83
    Card 5: 87 83 26 28 32 | 88 30 70 12 93 22 82 36
    Card 6: 31 18 13 56 72 | 74 77 10 23 35 67 36 11";
    
        #[test]
        fn test_process_part_one() {
            let input_bytes = INPUT.as_bytes();
            assert_eq!(13, process_part_one(BufReader::new(input_bytes)));
        }
    
        #[test]
        fn test_process_part_two() {
            let input_bytes = INPUT.as_bytes();
            assert_eq!(30, process_part_two(BufReader::new(input_bytes)));
        }
    }
    
    
  • PHP

    Today was the easiest day so far IMHO. Today, I coded in PHP, a horrible language that produces even worse code. (Ok, full confession, I fed my family for about half a decade on PHP. I seemed to have gotten stuck with it, and so I earned a PhD to escape it.)

    Anyway, the only trouble I had was I forgot about the explode function's capacity to return empty strings. Once I filtered those I had the correct answer on the first one, and then 10 minutes later I had the second part. I wrote my code true to raw php's awful idioms, though I didn't make it web based. I read from stdin.

    My code is linked on github:

  • [Language: Lean4]

    I'll only post the actual parsing and solution. I have written some helpers which are in other files, as is the main function. For the full code, please see my github repo.

    I'm pretty sure that implementing part 2 in a naive way would cause Lean to demand a proof of termination, what might not be that easy to supply in this case... Luckily there's a way more elegant and way faster solution than the naive one, that can use structural recursion and therefore doesn't need an extra proof of termination.

    Solution
    structure Card where
      id : Nat
      winningNumbers : List Nat
      haveNumbers : List Nat
      deriving Repr
    
    private def Card.matches (c : Card) : Nat :=
      flip c.haveNumbers.foldl 0 λo n ↦
        if c.winningNumbers.contains n then o + 1 else o
    
    private def Card.score : Card → Nat :=
      (· / 2) ∘ (2^·) ∘ Card.matches
    
    abbrev Deck := List Card
    
    private def Deck.score : Deck → Nat :=
      List.foldl (· + ·.score) 0
    
    def parse (input : String) : Option Deck := do
      let mut cards : Deck := []
      for line in input.splitOn "\n" do
        if line.isEmpty then
          continue
        let cs := line.splitOn ":"
        if p : cs.length = 2 then
          let f := String.trim $ cs[0]'(by simp[p])
          let g := String.trim $ cs[1]'(by simp[p])
          if not $ f.startsWith "Card " then
            failure
          let f := f.drop 5 |> String.trim
          let f ← f.toNat?
          let g := g.splitOn "|"
          if q : g.length = 2 then
            let winners := String.trim $ g[0]'(by simp[q])
            let draws := String.trim $ g[1]'(by simp[q])
            let toNumbers := λ(s : String) ↦
              s.split (·.isWhitespace)
              |> List.filter (not ∘ String.isEmpty)
              |> List.mapM String.toNat?
            let winners ← toNumbers winners
            let draws ← toNumbers draws
            cards := {id := f, winningNumbers := winners, haveNumbers := draws : Card} :: cards
          else
            failure
        else
          failure
      return cards -- cards is **reversed**, that's intentional. It doesn't affect part 1, but makes part 2 easier.
    
    def part1 : Deck → Nat := Deck.score
    
    def part2 (input : Deck) : Nat :=
      -- Okay, doing this brute-force is dumb.
      -- Instead let's compute how many cards each original card is worth, and sum that up.
      -- This relies on parse outputting the cards in **reverse** order.
      let multipliers := input.map Card.matches
      let sumNextN : Nat → List Nat → Nat := λn l ↦ (l.take n).foldl (· + ·) 0
      let rec helper : List Nat → List Nat → List Nat := λ input output ↦ match input with
        | [] => output
        | a :: as => helper as $ (1 + (sumNextN a output)) :: output
      let worths := helper multipliers []
      worths.foldl (· + ·) 0
    
  • [JavaScript] Swapped over to javascript from rust since I want to also practice some js. Managed to get part 1 in 4 minutes and got top 400 on the global leaderboard. Second part took a bit longer and took me 13 mins since I messed up by originally trying to append to the card array. (eventually swapped to keeping track of amounts in a separate array)

    Part 1
    // Part 1
    // ======
    
    function part1(input) {
      const lines = input.split("\n");
      let sum = 0;
    
      for (const line of lines) {
        const content = line.split(":")[1];
        const winningNums = content.split("|")[0].match(/\d+/g);
        const myNums = content.split("|")[1].match(/\d+/g);
    
        let cardSum = 0;
    
        for (const num of winningNums) {
          if (myNums.includes(num)) {
            if (cardSum == 0) {
              cardSum = 1;
            } else {
              cardSum = cardSum * 2;
            }
          }
        }
    
        sum = sum + cardSum;
      }
    
      return sum;
    }
    
    Part 2
    // Part 2
    // ======
    
    function part2(input) {
      let lines = input.split("\n");
      let amount = Array(lines.length).fill(1);
    
      for (const [i, line] of lines.entries()) {
        const content = line.split(":")[1];
        const winningNums = content.split("|")[0].match(/\d+/g);
        const myNums = content.split("|")[1].match(/\d+/g);
    
        let cardSum = 0;
    
        for (const num of winningNums) {
          if (myNums.includes(num)) {
            cardSum += 1;
          }
        }
    
        for (let j = 1; j <= cardSum; j++) {
          if (i + j >= lines.length) {
            break;
          }
          amount[i + j] += amount[i];
        }
      }
    
      return lines.reduce((acc, line, i) => {
        return acc + amount[i];
      }, 0);
    }
    

    Code Link

    • Improvement I found afterwards:

      • Could have done a reduce on the amount array instead of the lines array since I don't use the line value at all
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