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?!

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  • capitalpb@programming.devEnglish
    51·
    7 months ago

    Solved part one in about thirty seconds. But wow, either my brain is just tired at this hour or I’m lacking in skill, but part two is harder than any other year has been on the first day. Anyway, I managed to solve it, but I absolutely hate it, and will definitely be coming back to try to clean this one up.

    https://github.com/capitalpb/advent_of_code_2023/blob/main/src/solvers/day01.rs

    impl Solver for Day01 {
    fn star_one(&self, input: &str) -> String {
        let mut result = 0;

        for line in input.lines() {
            let line = line
                .chars()
                .filter(|ch| ch.is_ascii_digit())
                .collect::>();
            let first = line.first().unwrap();
            let last = line.last().unwrap();
            let number = format!("{first}{last}").parse::().unwrap();
            result += number;
        }

        result.to_string()
    }

    fn star_two(&self, input: &str) -> String {
        let mut result = 0;

        for line in input.lines() {
            let mut first = None;
            let mut last = None;

            while first == None {
                for index in 0..line.len() {
                    let line_slice = &line[index..];
                    if line_slice.starts_with("one") || line_slice.starts_with("1") {
                        first = Some(1);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("two") || line_slice.starts_with("2") {
                        first = Some(2);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("three") || line_slice.starts_with("3") {
                        first = Some(3);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("four") || line_slice.starts_with("4") {
                        first = Some(4);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("five") || line_slice.starts_with("5") {
                        first = Some(5);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("six") || line_slice.starts_with("6") {
                        first = Some(6);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("seven") || line_slice.starts_with("7") {
                        first = Some(7);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("eight") || line_slice.starts_with("8") {
                        first = Some(8);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("nine") || line_slice.starts_with("9") {
                        first = Some(9);
                    }

                    if first.is_some() {
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }

            while last == None {
                for index in (0..line.len()).rev() {
                    let line_slice = &line[index..];
                    if line_slice.starts_with("one") || line_slice.starts_with("1") {
                        last = Some(1);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("two") || line_slice.starts_with("2") {
                        last = Some(2);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("three") || line_slice.starts_with("3") {
                        last = Some(3);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("four") || line_slice.starts_with("4") {
                        last = Some(4);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("five") || line_slice.starts_with("5") {
                        last = Some(5);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("six") || line_slice.starts_with("6") {
                        last = Some(6);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("seven") || line_slice.starts_with("7") {
                        last = Some(7);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("eight") || line_slice.starts_with("8") {
                        last = Some(8);
                    } else if line_slice.starts_with("nine") || line_slice.starts_with("9") {
                        last = Some(9);
                    }

                    if last.is_some() {
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }

            result += format!("{}{}", first.unwrap(), last.unwrap())
                .parse::()
                .unwrap();
        }

        result.to_string()
    }
}