package main import ( "fmt" // "strings" "bufio" "os" "regexp" "strconv" ) func check(e error) { if e != nil { panic(e) } } func PrintAndWait(x ...any) { fmt.Print(x) fmt.Scanln() } func main() { file, err := os.Open("./inputs/day03_input") check(err) defer file.Close() // This regex find the numbers inside strings renum := regexp.MustCompile("[0-9]+") resym := regexp.MustCompile("[^0-9.]+") scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file) var lines []string var totalSum int = 0 // Read the whole file into an array of strings for scanner.Scan() { lines = append(lines, scanner.Text()) } numLines := len(lines) numbers := make([][]int, numLines) // The 2D array of numbers will hold all the numbers to easily // match them with corresponding strings in the file using the index // For every line in the file, cerate an array of numbers for i := 0; i < numLines; i++ { tempNums := renum.FindAllString(lines[i], -1) for j := 0; j < len(tempNums); j++ { num, _ := strconv.Atoi(tempNums[j]) numbers[i] = append(numbers[i], num) } } /* Line [0] needs to check only line 1 for symbols. Similarly, the last line needs to check only (last line index - 1) for symbols. So we first check the line [0], then start a loop from 1 to (last line index - 1) */ firstLineNums := renum.FindAllStringIndex(lines[0], -1) firstLineSymbolsIndex := resym.FindAllStringIndex(lines[0], -1) secondLineSymbolsIndex := resym.FindAllStringIndex(lines[1], -1) // For every *number index range*, check if in the same line there is a // symbol on (first - 1) or (last + 1), check in other lines if there is // a symbol in a specific interval of numbers. If you find a match, you // can break as you just need one symbol for i := range firstLineNums { for j := range firstLineSymbolsIndex { if firstLineSymbolsIndex[j][0] >= firstLineNums[i][0] - 1 && (firstLineSymbolsIndex[j][0] <= firstLineNums[i][1]) { totalSum += numbers[0][i] break } } for j := range secondLineSymbolsIndex { if (secondLineSymbolsIndex[j][0] >= firstLineNums[i][0] - 1) && (secondLineSymbolsIndex[j][0] <= firstLineNums[i][1]) { totalSum += numbers[0][i] break } } } PrintAndWait(totalSum) // Now we loop from 1 to (last index - i) for i := 1; i < len(lines) - 1; i++ { // We need to check the current line against an interval of three lines // breaking the loop for a single number as soon as we find a match // (we don't want duplicate matches) currentLineNums := renum.FindAllStringIndex(lines[i], -1) previousLineIndex := resym.FindAllStringIndex(lines[i - 1], -1) currentLineIndex := resym.FindAllStringIndex(lines[i], -1) nextLineIndex := resym.FindAllStringIndex(lines[i + 1], -1) PrintAndWait("i: ", i) OuterLoop: for k := range currentLineNums { PrintAndWait("k: ", k, currentLineNums) for j := range previousLineIndex { PrintAndWait("prev j: ", j, previousLineIndex) if previousLineIndex[j][0] >= currentLineNums[k][0] - 1 && previousLineIndex[j][0] <= currentLineNums[k][1] { PrintAndWait(numbers[i][k]) totalSum += numbers[i][k] continue OuterLoop } } for j := range currentLineIndex { PrintAndWait("cur j: ", j, currentLineIndex) if currentLineIndex[j][0] >= currentLineNums[k][0] - 1 && currentLineIndex[j][0] <= currentLineNums[k][1] { PrintAndWait(numbers[i][k]) totalSum += numbers[i][k] continue OuterLoop } } for j := range nextLineIndex { PrintAndWait("next j: ", j, nextLineIndex) if nextLineIndex[j][0] >= currentLineNums[k][0] - 1 && nextLineIndex[j][0] <= currentLineNums[k][1] { PrintAndWait(numbers[i][k]) totalSum += numbers[i][k] continue OuterLoop } } } } // Now we need to loop the last line and confront it with previous // and itself lastLineNums := renum.FindAllStringIndex(lines[len(lines) - 1], -1) lastLineSymbolsIndex := resym.FindAllStringIndex(lines[len(lines) - 1], -1) notLastLineSymbolsIndex := resym.FindAllStringIndex(lines[len(lines) - 2], -1) // For every *number index range*, check if in the same line there is a // symbol on (last - 1) or (last + 1), check in other lines if there is // a symbol in a specific interval of numbers. If you find a match, you // can break as you just need one symbol for i := range lastLineNums { PrintAndWait("i: ", i, lastLineNums) for j := range lastLineSymbolsIndex { PrintAndWait("last j: ", j, notLastLineSymbolsIndex) if lastLineSymbolsIndex[j][0] >= lastLineNums[i][0] - 1 && (lastLineSymbolsIndex[j][0] <= lastLineNums[i][1]) { PrintAndWait(numbers[len(lines) - 1][i]) PrintAndWait(totalSum) totalSum += numbers[len(lines) - 1][i] PrintAndWait(totalSum) break } } for j := range notLastLineSymbolsIndex { PrintAndWait("notlast j: ", j, notLastLineSymbolsIndex) if (notLastLineSymbolsIndex[j][0] >= lastLineNums[i][0] - 1) && (notLastLineSymbolsIndex[j][0] <= lastLineNums[i][1]) { PrintAndWait(numbers[len(lines) - 1][i]) PrintAndWait(totalSum) totalSum += numbers[len(lines) - 1][i] PrintAndWait(totalSum) break } } } fmt.Printf("The total sum is: %d\n", totalSum) }