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?!


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)
  • Code block support is not fully rolled out yet but likely will be in the middle of the event. Try to share solutions as both code blocks and using something such as https://topaz.github.io/paste/ or pastebin (code blocks to future proof it for when 0.19 comes out and since code blocks currently function in some apps and some instances as well if they are running a 0.19 beta)

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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()
    }
}
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there where only two rules about posting here and you managed to break one of them

edit: oh sry, only one rule

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Wow, I sure did. I was tired last night. I’ll edit my solution in and fix my error.

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