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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Day one really got me with those pesky overlapping words like eightwo or twone.

Today was actually really easy the way I did it.
I searched through all the characters of the lines and when I got one that wasn't a number or a period, I looked at all the 8 places around to find the numbers. The numbers I completed by looking in both directions until I got a non-number.
Then I put all numbers and their starting positions in an array, deleted the duplicates and summed them.

By doing this, question 2 only took me 4 minutes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it looks like the better solutions generally took that route. I convinced myself that the symbols were going to all have different rules in part 2, so ended up thinking about it way too hard for day 3 ๐Ÿ˜€

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thought so too, but for me it was a simple match statement (rust), which then became a glorified if statement. ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] UndercoverUlrikHD 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, I did it the opposite. Found every number and passed a list of every adjacent position of the number to check for non-digit/dot/non-whitespace.

Took a bit longer to solve part 2 due to that approach though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

In that case I was kinda lucky.

But it looked more second-partly to do it that way. ๐Ÿ˜‚