Day 3: Mull It Over
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Lisp
Just did some basic regex stuff.
Part 1 and 2
(defun p1-mult (str) "pulls out numbers and multiplies them, assumes already filtered by size" (let ((vals (ppcre:all-matches-as-strings "\\d+" str))) (apply #'* (or (mapcar #'parse-integer vals) '(0))))) (defun p1-process-line (line) "look for mul, do the mul, and sum" (let ((ptrn "mul\\(\\d?\\d?\\d,\\d?\\d?\\d\\)")) (apply #'+ (mapcar #'p1-mult (ppcre:all-matches-as-strings ptrn line))))) (defun run-p1 (file) (let ((data (read-file file #'p1-process-line))) (apply #'+ data))) (defun p2-process-line (line) "looks for mul, do, and don't" (let ((ptrn "(mul\\(\\d?\\d?\\d,\\d?\\d?\\d\\))|(do\\(\\))|(don't\\(\\))")) (ppcre:all-matches-as-strings ptrn line))) (defun p2-filter (data) "expects list containing the string tokens (mul, do, don't) from the file" (let ((process t)) (loop for x in data when (string= "don't()" x) do (setf process nil) when (string= "do()" x) do (setf process t) when process sum (p1-mult x)))) (defun run-p2 (file) (let ((data (read-file file #'p2-process-line))) ;; treat the input as one line to make processing the do's and don't's easier (p2-filter (flatten data))))