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()
    }
}

[Rust] 11157/6740

use std::fs;

const m: [(&str, u32); 10] = [
    ("zero", 0),
    ("one", 1),
    ("two", 2),
    ("three", 3),
    ("four", 4),
    ("five", 5),
    ("six", 6),
    ("seven", 7),
    ("eight", 8),
    ("nine", 9)
];

fn main() {
    let s = fs::read_to_string("data/input.txt").unwrap();

    let mut u = 0;

    for l in s.lines() {
        let mut h = l.chars();
        let mut f = 0;
        let mut a = 0;

        for n in 0..l.len() {
            let u = h.next().unwrap();

            match u.is_numeric() {
                true => {
                    let v = u.to_digit(10).unwrap();
                    if f == 0 {
                        f = v;
                    }
                    a = v;
                },
                _ => {
                    for (t, v) in m {
                        if l[n..].starts_with(t) {
                            if f == 0 {
                                f = v;
                            }
                            a = v;
                        }
                    }
                },
            }
        }

        u += f * 10 + a;
    }

    println!("Sum: {}", u);
}

Link

I feel ok about part 1, and just terrible about part 2.

day01.factor on github (with comments and imports):

: part1 ( -- )
  "vocab:aoc-2023/day01/input.txt" utf8 file-lines
  [
    [ [ digit? ] find nip ]
    [ [ digit? ] find-last nip ] bi
    2array string>number
  ] map-sum .
;

MEMO: digit-words ( -- name-char-assoc )
  [ "123456789" [ dup char>name "-" split1 nip ,, ] each ] H{ } make
;

: first-digit-char ( str -- num-char/f i/f )
  [ digit? ] find swap
;

: last-digit-char ( str -- num-char/f i/f )
  [ digit? ] find-last swap
;

: first-digit-word ( str -- num-char/f )
  [
    digit-words keys [
      2dup subseq-index
      dup [
        [ digit-words at ] dip
        ,,
      ] [ 2drop ] if
    ] each drop                           !
  ] H{ } make
  [ f ] [
    sort-keys first last
  ] if-assoc-empty
;

: last-digit-word ( str -- num-char/f )
  reverse
  [
    digit-words keys [
      reverse
      2dup subseq-index
      dup [
        [ reverse digit-words at ] dip
        ,,
      ] [ 2drop ] if
    ] each drop                           !
  ] H{ } make
  [ f ] [
    sort-keys first last
  ] if-assoc-empty
;

: first-digit ( str -- num-char )
  dup first-digit-char dup [
    pick 2dup swap head nip
    first-digit-word dup [
      [ 2drop ] dip
    ] [ 2drop ] if
    nip
  ] [
    2drop first-digit-word
  ] if
;

: last-digit ( str -- num-char )
  dup last-digit-char dup [
    pick 2dup swap 1 + tail nip
    last-digit-word dup [
      [ 2drop ] dip
    ] [ 2drop ] if
    nip
  ] [
    2drop last-digit-word
  ] if
;

: part2 ( -- )
  "vocab:aoc-2023/day01/input.txt" utf8 file-lines
  [ [ first-digit ] [ last-digit ] bi 2array string>number ] map-sum .
;

Have a snippet of Ruby, something I hacked together as part of a solution during the WFH morning meeting;

class String
  def to_numberstring(digits_only: false)
    tokens = { 
      one: 1, two: 2, three: 3,
      four: 4, five: 5, six: 6,
      seven: 7, eight: 8, nine: 9
    }.freeze
    ret = ""

    i = 0
    loop do
      if self[i] =~ /\d/
        ret += self[i]
      elsif !digits_only
        tok = tokens.find { |k, _| self[i, k.size] == k.to_s }
        ret += tok.last.to_s if tok
      end
      
      i += 1
      break if i >= size
    end

    ret
  end
end

Solution in C: https://github.com/sjmulder/aoc/blob/master/2023/c/day01-orig.c

Usually day 1 solutions are super short numeric things, this was a little more verbose. For part 2 I just loop over an array of digit names and use strncmp().

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	static const char * const nm[] = {"zero", "one", "two", "three",
	    "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine"};
	char buf[64], *s;
	int p1=0,p2=0, p1f,p1l, p2f,p2l, d;
	
	while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin)) {
		p1f = p1l = p2f = p2l = -1;

		for (s=buf; *s; s++)
			if (*s >= '0' && *s <= '9') {
				d = *s-'0';
				if (p1f == -1) p1f = d;
				if (p2f == -1) p2f = d;
				p1l = p2l = d;
			} else for (d=0; d<10; d++) {
				if (strncmp(s, nm[d], strlen(nm[d])))
					continue;
				if (p2f == -1) p2f = d;
				p2l = d;
				break;
			}

		p1 += p1f*10 + p1l;
		p2 += p2f*10 + p2l;
	}

	printf("%d %d\n", p1, p2);
	return 0;
}