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Advent of Code 2019 Solution Megathread - Day 17: Set and Forget

Gotta get rid of the dust before space-mom comes to see our space module!

Day 17 - The Problem

Oh no! We need to save our robot helpers! There's a solar flare on the way, and we need to use our trusty IntCode interpreter to use the Aft Scaffolding Control and Information Interface to help find a sleepy robot to help us out.

Part 1 has us examining the scaffolding and calculating the value of a bunch of intersections.

Part 2 requires us to send some code into the IntCode interpreter to instruct a little robot to tell the rest of its friends to get inside.

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Rizwan

Forgot to post the solution here. I tried to solve the part 2 in code and I couldn't find any way of doing it. As usual got the hint from R website and went ahead on manual way.

Swift solution

func partOne() {
    let computer = Opcode.init(input)
    var result: String = ""
    var outputs: [Int] = []
    while !computer.done {
        outputs.append(computer.run())
    }
    outputs.map { result.append(Character(UnicodeScalar($0)!))}

    let grid = result.split(separator: "\n").map{ $0.map{$0}}
    var sum = 0
    for row in 1 ..< (grid.count - 1) {
        for column in 1 ..< (grid[row].count - 1) {
            if grid[row][column] == "#" {
                if grid[row][column - 1] == "#" &&
                    grid[row][column + 1] == "#" &&
                    grid[row - 1][column] == "#" &&
                    grid[row + 1][column] == "#" {
                    sum += row * column
                }
            }
        }
    }
    print(grid)
    print("Part 1 answer is :\(sum)")
}

func partTwo() {
    var scanLine = ""
    let rules = """
    A,B,B,A,B,C,A,C,B,C
    L,4,L,6,L,8,L,12
    L,8,R,12,L,12
    R,12,L,6,L,6,L,8
    y\n
    """.map { Int($0.asciiValue!) }
    var rulesIndex = -1

    var dustCollected = 0
    input[0] = 2
    let computer = Opcode.init(input)
    while !computer.done {
        rulesIndex += 1
        computer.inputIds.append(rules[rulesIndex])
        let value = computer.run()
        dustCollected = value
    }

    print("Part 2 answer is :\(dustCollected)")
}

partOne()
partTwo()

Opcode and input can be found here

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Jon Bristow • Edited

Woo! I got in the mid-900s for part 1!

However, part 2 doesn't seem to be working. It never asks for input and I don't know why! I was accidentally saving state between runs. DOH!

Kotlin solution for part 1

import arrow.core.Either
import arrow.core.None
import arrow.core.Some
import arrow.core.left
import arrow.core.right
import arrow.optics.optics
import intcode.CurrentState
import intcode.IntCode
import intcode.handleCodePoint
import intcode.toIntCodeProgram
import java.util.*

@optics
data class Ascii(
    val code: IntCode,
    val output: LinkedList<Long> = LinkedList(),
    val state: Either<String, CurrentState> = CurrentState().right(),
    val inputs: LinkedList<Long> = LinkedList()
) {
    companion object
}

private tailrec fun Ascii.runCode(): Ascii {
    return when (state) {
        is Either.Left<String> -> this
        is Either.Right<CurrentState> -> when (state.b.pointer) {
            is None -> this
            is Some<Long> -> {
                val nAscii = processOutput().sendInput()
                nAscii.copy(state = handleCodePoint(code, nAscii.state)).runCode()
            }
        }
    }
}

private fun Ascii.sendInput(): Ascii {
    return state.fold(
        ifLeft = { this },
        ifRight = {
            when {
                it.waitingForInput && inputs.isEmpty() -> copy(state = "Error: Attempted to get input with no inputs left.".left())
                it.waitingForInput -> {
                    val nInstr = inputs.pop()
                    it.inputs.add(nInstr.toLong())
                    copy(state = it.right())
                }
                else -> {
                    this
                }
            }
        }
    )
}

private tailrec fun Ascii.processOutput(): Ascii {
    return when (state) {
        is Either.Left<String> -> this
        is Either.Right<CurrentState> -> when {
            state.b.output.isEmpty() -> this
            else -> {
                val o = state.b.output.pop()
                when {
                    o > 127 -> println("NONASCII:$o")
                    else -> print(o.toChar())
                }
                output.add(o)
                if (o.toChar() == '\n') {
                    output.clear()
                }

                processOutput()
            }
        }
    }
}


object Day17 {
    private const val FILENAME = "src/main/resources/day17.txt"
    val fileData = FILENAME.toIntCodeProgram()

    fun part1() {
        val ascii = Ascii(code = fileData).runCode()
        println(ascii.output.joinToString("") { it.toChar().toString() })
        val points = ascii.output.joinToString("") { l -> "${l.toChar()}" }
            .lines().mapIndexed { y, line ->
                line.withIndex().filter { (_, c) -> c == '#' }
                    .map { (x, c) ->
                        Point(x, y) to c
                    }
            }.flatten().toMap()
        val intersections =
            points.filterKeys { p -> allDirections().map { d -> p.inDirection(d) }.all(points::contains) }.keys

        println(intersections.sumBy { p -> p.x * p.y })


    }

    val prog = "A,B,A,C,B,C,B,C,A,B\n" +
            "L,6,L,4,R,8\n" +
            "R,8,L,6,L,4,L,10,R,8\n" +
            "L,4,R,4,L,4,R,8\n" +
            "y\n"

    fun part2() {
        println(prog.lines().map { it.length })
        println(prog.map { b -> b.toLong() })
        val newCode = FILENAME.toIntCodeProgram().apply { this[0] = 2 }
        val ascii = Ascii(
            code = newCode,
            inputs = LinkedList(prog.map { it.toLong() }),
            state = CurrentState().right()
        ).runCode()

        println(ascii)
    }
}

fun main() {
    Day17.part1()
    Day17.part2()
}