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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?

https://pastebin.com/US8ikNLx

defmodule AdventOfCode.Day01 do
  def part1(args) do
    args
    |> String.split(~r/\n/, trim: true)
    |> Enum.map(&line_calibration_value/1)
    |> Enum.sum()
  end

  def part2(args) do
    args
    |> String.split(~r/\n/, trim: true)
    |> Enum.map(&words_to_numbers/1)
    |> Enum.map(&line_calibration_value/1)
    |> Enum.sum()
  end

  defp words_to_numbers(string) do
    numbers = ["one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine"]

    String.replace(string, numbers, fn x ->
      (Enum.find_index(numbers, &(&1 == x)) + 1)
      |> Integer.to_string()
    end)
  end

  # TODO: doesn't work if the string has no numbers
  defp line_calibration_value(string) do
    # remove any non-numeric characters
    number_from_string = String.replace(string, ~r/[^\d]/, "")

    calibration_number = [
      # first number
      String.at(number_from_string, 0),
      # last number, or first number is string has length of 1
      String.at(number_from_string, -1)
    ]

    calibration_number
    |> List.to_string()
    |> String.to_integer()
  end
end

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[–] Cyno 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] stifle867 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just added this to my test case and when it passed the solution also passed:

assert part2("12oneightfve") === 18

[–] Cyno 1 points 11 months ago

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.