Day 3: Mull It Over

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FAQ

  • Rust

    Regex made this one pretty straightforward. The second part additionally looks for do() and don't() in the same regex, then we do a case distinction on the match.

    use regex::{Regex, Captures};
    
    fn mul_cap(cap: Captures) -> i32 {
        let a = cap.get(1).unwrap().as_str().parse::().unwrap();
        let b = cap.get(2).unwrap().as_str().parse::().unwrap();
        a * b
    }
    
    fn part1(input: String) {
        let re = Regex::new(r"mul\((\d{1,3}),(\d{1,3})\)").unwrap();
        let res = re.captures_iter(&input).map(mul_cap).sum::();
        println!("{res}");
    }
    
    fn part2(input: String) {
        let re = Regex::new(r"do\(\)|don't\(\)|mul\((\d{1,3}),(\d{1,3})\)").unwrap();
        let mut enabled = true;
        let mut res = 0;
        for cap in re.captures_iter(&input) {
            match cap.get(0).unwrap().as_str() {
                "do()" => enabled = true,
                "don't()" => enabled = false,
                _ if enabled => res += mul_cap(cap),
                _ => {}
            }
        }
        println!("{res}");
    }
    
    util::aoc_main!();
    
    • Our part1’s are basically identical, but for part 2 I just regex deleted everything between dont() anddo() `, after sanitizing out the newlines.

      I guess it would have failed if my test data had a mul after the last dont, but it worked out, so good enough :)