Day 3: Mull It Over
Megathread guidelines
- Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
- You can send code in code blocks by using three backticks, the code, and then three backticks or use something such as https://topaz.github.io/paste/ if you prefer sending it through a URL
FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465
Kotlin
fun part1(input: String): Int { val pattern = "mul\\((\\d{1,3}),(\\d{1,3})\\)".toRegex() var sum = 0 pattern.findAll(input).forEach { match -> val first = match.groups[1]?.value?.toInt()!! val second = match.groups[2]?.value?.toInt()!! sum += first * second } return sum } fun part2(input: String): Int { val pattern = "mul\\((\\d{1,3}),(\\d{1,3})\\)|don't\\(\\)|do\\(\\)".toRegex() var sum = 0 var enabled = true pattern.findAll(input).forEach { match -> if (match.value == "do()") enabled = true else if (match.value == "don't()") enabled = false else if (enabled) { val first = match.groups[1]?.value?.toInt()!! val second = match.groups[2]?.value?.toInt()!! sum += first * second } } return sum }
You can avoid having to escape the backslashes in regexps by using multiline strings:
val pattern = """mul\((\d{1,3}),(\d{1,3})\)""".toRegex()