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Quentin Ménoret
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Advent of code - Day 2

#javascript #typescript #adventofcode

Are you participating in the Advent of code this year?

If you don't know what the advent of code is, it's a website where you'll find a daily challenge (every day it gets harder). It's a really fun event, you should participate!

I try to solve the exercises using either JavaScript or TypeScript and will share my solutions daily (with one day delay so no one can cheat!). I only share the solution for the second part.

Here is my solution for day #2:

// I completed this one directly in the console of the website
$('body > pre')
  // get text line by line
  .textContent.split(/\r?\n/)
  .filter(Boolean)
  // differentiate the definition from the string
  .map((definition) => definition.split(': '))
  .filter(([definition, password]) => {
    const [minMax, letter] = definition.split(' ')
    const [min, max] = minMax.split('-').map((x) => parseInt(x) - 1)
    return (
      (password[min] === letter && password[max] !== letter) ||
      (password[max] === letter && password[min] !== letter)
    )
  })
  .length
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The code doesn't look pretty, but it does the trick.
Feel free to share yours in the comments!

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Derk-Jan Karrenbeld • • Edited

It doesn't need to be pretty! As long as it does the job right? It was a fun exercise. Here is mine in Ruby:

require 'benchmark'

class PasswordPolicy
  def self.from_line(line)
    length, char, password = line.split(' ')
    first, second = length.split('-').map(&:to_i)
    char = char.delete(':')

    PasswordPolicy.new(positions: [first - 1, second - 1], char: char, password: password)
  end

  def initialize(positions:, char:, password:)
    self.positions = positions
    self.char = char
    self.password = password
  end

  def valid?
    positions.count { |i| password[i] == char } == 1
  end

  private

  attr_accessor :positions, :char, :password
end

lines = File.readlines('input.txt')

valids = 0

Benchmark.bm do |x|
  x.report do
    valids = lines.count do |line|
      PasswordPolicy.from_line(line).valid?
    end
  end
end

puts valids
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And for comparison, here is the inlined version:

entries = File.readlines('input.txt').map do |line|
  positions, char, password = line.split
  left, right = positions.split(?-).map(&:to_i)
  [left, right, char.first, password.chomp]
}

puts entries.count do |left, right, char, password|
  (password[left - 1] == char) != (password[right - 1] == char)
}
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