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Day 2: Cube Conundrum


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  • Found a C per-char solution, that is, no lines, splitting, lookahead, etc. It wasn't even necessary to keep match lengths for the color names because they all have unique characters, e.g. 'b' only occurs in "blue" so then you can attribute the count to that color.

    int main()
    {
    	int p1=0,p2=0, id=1,num=0, r=0,g=0,b=0, c;
    
    	while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
    		if (c==',' || c==';' || c==':') num = 0; else
    		if (c>='0' && c<='9') num = num*10 + c-'0'; else
    		if (c=='d') r = MAX(r, num); else
    		if (c=='g') g = MAX(g, num); else
    		if (c=='b') b = MAX(b, num); else
    		if (c=='\n') {
    			p1 += (r<=12 && g<=13 && b<=14) * id;
    			p2 += r*g*b;
    			r=g=b=0; id++;
    		}
    
    	printf("%d %d\n", p1, p2);
    	return 0;
    }
    

    Golfed:

    c,p,P,i,n,r,g,b;main(){while(~
    (c=getchar()))c==44|c==58|59==
    c?n=0:c>47&c<58?n=n*10+c-48:98
    ==c?b=b>n?b:n:c=='d'?r=r>n?r:n
    :c=='g'?g=g>n?g:n:10==c?p+=++i
    *(r<13&g<14&b<15),P+=r*g*b,r=g
    =b=0:0;printf("%d %d\n",p,P);}
    
  • Rust

    Pretty straightforward this time, the bulk of the work was clearly in parsing the input.

  • Not too tricky today. Part 2 wasn't as big of a curveball as yesterday thankfully. I don't think it's the cleanest code I've ever written, but hey - the whole point of this is to get better at Rust, so I'll definitely be learning as I go, and coming back at the end to clean a lot of these up. I think for this one I'd like to look into a parsing crate like nom to clean up all the spliting and unwrapping in the two from() methods.

    https://github.com/capitalpb/advent_of_code_2023/blob/main/src/solvers/day02.rs

    #[derive(Debug)]
    struct Hand {
        blue: usize,
        green: usize,
        red: usize,
    }
    
    impl Hand {
        fn from(input: &str) -> Hand {
            let mut hand = Hand {
                blue: 0,
                green: 0,
                red: 0,
            };
    
            for color in input.split(", ") {
                let color = color.split_once(' ').unwrap();
                match color.1 {
                    "blue" => hand.blue = color.0.parse::().unwrap(),
                    "green" => hand.green = color.0.parse::().unwrap(),
                    "red" => hand.red = color.0.parse::().unwrap(),
                    _ => unreachable!("malformed input"),
                }
            }
    
            hand
        }
    }
    
    #[derive(Debug)]
    struct Game {
        id: usize,
        hands: Vec,
    }
    
    impl Game {
        fn from(input: &str) -> Game {
            let (id, hands) = input.split_once(": ").unwrap();
            let id = id.split_once(" ").unwrap().1.parse::().unwrap();
            let hands = hands.split("; ").map(Hand::from).collect();
            Game { id, hands }
        }
    }
    
    pub struct Day02;
    
    impl Solver for Day02 {
        fn star_one(&self, input: &str) -> String {
            input
                .lines()
                .map(Game::from)
                .filter(|game| {
                    game.hands
                        .iter()
                        .all(|hand| hand.blue <= 14 && hand.green <= 13 && hand.red <= 12)
                })
                .map(|game| game.id)
                .sum::()
                .to_string()
        }
    
        fn star_two(&self, input: &str) -> String {
            input
                .lines()
                .map(Game::from)
                .map(|game| {
                    let max_blue = game.hands.iter().map(|hand| hand.blue).max().unwrap();
                    let max_green = game.hands.iter().map(|hand| hand.green).max().unwrap();
                    let max_red = game.hands.iter().map(|hand| hand.red).max().unwrap();
    
                    max_blue * max_green * max_red
                })
                .sum::()
                .to_string()
        }
    }
    
  • This was mostly straightforward... basically just parsing input. Here are my condensed solutions in Python

    Part 1
    Game = dict[str, int]
    
    RED_MAX   = 12
    GREEN_MAX = 13
    BLUE_MAX  = 14
    
    def read_game(stream=sys.stdin) -> Game:
        try:
            game_string, cubes_string = stream.readline().split(':')
        except ValueError:
            return {}
    
        game: Game = defaultdict(int)
        game['id'] = int(game_string.split()[-1])
    
        for cubes in cubes_string.split(';'):
            for cube in cubes.split(','):
                count, color = cube.split()
                game[color] = max(game[color], int(count))
    
        return game
    
    def read_games(stream=sys.stdin) -> Iterator[Game]:
        while game := read_game(stream):
            yield game
    
    def is_valid_game(game: Game) -> bool:
        return all([
            game['red']   <= RED_MAX,
            game['green'] <= GREEN_MAX,
            game['blue']  <= BLUE_MAX,
        ])
    
    def main(stream=sys.stdin) -> None:
        valid_games = filter(is_valid_game, read_games(stream))
        sum_of_ids  = sum(game['id'] for game in valid_games)
        print(sum_of_ids)
    
    Part 2

    For the second part, the main parsing remainded the same. I just had to change what I did with the games I read.

    def power(game: Game) -> int:
        return game['red'] * game['green'] * game['blue']
    
    def main(stream=sys.stdin) -> None:
        sum_of_sets = sum(power(game) for game in read_games(stream))
        print(sum_of_sets)
    

    GitHub Repo

  • Factor on github (with comments and imports):

    : known-color ( color-phrases regexp -- n )
      all-matching-subseqs [ 0 ] [
        [ split-words first string>number ] map-supremum
      ] if-empty
    ;
    
    : line>known-rgb ( str -- game-id known-rgb )
      ": " split1 [ split-words last string>number ] dip
      R/ \d+ red/ R/ \d+ green/ R/ \d+ blue/
      [ known-color ] tri-curry@ tri 3array
    ;
    
    : possible? ( known-rgb test-rgb -- ? )
      v<= [ ] all?
    ;
    
    : part1 ( -- )
      "vocab:aoc-2023/day02/input.txt" utf8 file-lines
      [ line>known-rgb 2array ]
      [ last { 12 13 14 } possible? ] map-filter
      [ first ] map-sum .
    ;
    
    : part2 ( -- )
      "vocab:aoc-2023/day02/input.txt" utf8 file-lines
      [ line>known-rgb nip product ] map-sum .
    ;
    
  • Mostly an input parsing problem this time, but it was fun to use Hares tokenizer functions:

    lua
    -- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Jummit
    --
    -- SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
    
    local colors = {"blue", "red", "green"}
    local available = {red = 12, blue = 14, green = 13}
    local possible = 0
    local id = 0
    local min = 0
    
    for game in io.open("2.input"):lines() do
      id = id + 1
      game = game:gsub("Game %d+: ", "").."; "
      local max = {red = 0, blue = 0, green = 0}
      for show in game:gmatch(".-; ") do
        for _, color in ipairs(colors) do
          local num = tonumber(show:match("(%d+) "..color))
          if num then
            max[color] = math.max(max[color], num)
          end
        end
      end
      min = min + max.red * max.blue * max.green
      local thisPossible = true
      for _, color in ipairs(colors) do
        if max[color] > available[color] then
          thisPossible = false
          break
        end
      end
      if thisPossible then
        possible = possible + id
      end
    end
    
    print(possible)
    print(min)
    
    hare
    // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Jummit
    //
    // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
    
    use strconv;
    use types;
    use strings;
    use io;
    use bufio;
    use os;
    use fmt;
    
    const available: []uint = [12, 13, 14];
    
    fn color_id(color: str) const uint = {
    	switch (color) {
    	case "red" => return 0;
    	case "green" => return 1;
    	case "blue" => return 2;
    	case => abort();
    	};
    };
    
    export fn main() void = {
    	const file = os::open("2.input")!;
    	defer io::close(file)!;
    	const scan = bufio::newscanner(file, types::SIZE_MAX);
    	let possible: uint = 0;
    	let min: uint = 0;
    
    	for (let id = 1u; true; id += 1) {
    		const line = match(bufio::scan_line(&scan)!) {
    		case io::EOF =>
    			break;
    		case let line: const str =>
    			yield strings::sub(
    					line,
    					strings::index(line, ": ") as size + 2,
    					strings::end);
    		};
    		let max: []uint = [0, 0, 0];
    		let tok = strings::rtokenize(line, "; ");
    		for (true) {
    			const show = match(strings::next_token(&tok)) {
    			case void =>
    				break;
    			case let show: str =>
    				yield show;
    			};
    			const pairs = strings::tokenize(show, ", ");
    			for (true) {
    				const pair: (str, str) = match(strings::next_token(&pairs)) {
    				case void =>
    					break;
    				case let pair: str =>
    					let tok = strings::tokenize(pair, " ");
    					yield (
    						strings::next_token(&tok) as str,
    						strings::next_token(&tok) as str
    					);
    				};
    				let color = color_id(pair.1);
    				let amount = strconv::stou(pair.0)!;
    				if (amount > max[color]) max[color] = amount;
    			};
    		};
    		if (max[0] <= available[0] && max[1] <= available[1] && max[2] <= available[2]) {
    			fmt::printfln("{}", id)!;
    			possible += id;
    		};
    		min += max[0] * max[1] * max[2];
    	};
    	
    	fmt::printfln("{}", possible)!;
    	fmt::printfln("{}", min)!;
    };
    
  • Late as always, as I'm on UK time and can't work on these until late evening.

    Part 01 and Part 02 in Rust 🦀 :

    use std::{
        env, fs,
        io::{self, BufRead, BufReader},
    };
    
    #[derive(Debug)]
    struct Sample {
        r: u32,
        g: u32,
        b: u32,
    }
    
    fn split_cube_set(set: &[&str], colour: &str) -> Option {
        match set.iter().find(|x| x.ends_with(colour)) {
            Some(item) => item
                .trim()
                .split(' ')
                .next()
                .expect("Found item is present")
                .parse::()
                .ok(),
            None => None,
        }
    }
    
    fn main() -> io::Result<()> {
        let args: Vec = env::args().collect();
        let filename = &args[1];
        let file = fs::File::open(filename)?;
        let reader = BufReader::new(file);
        let mut valid_game_ids_sum = 0;
        let mut game_power_sum = 0;
        let max_r = 12;
        let max_g = 13;
        let max_b = 14;
        for line_result in reader.lines() {
            let mut valid_game = true;
            let line = line_result.unwrap();
            let line_split: Vec<_> = line.split(':').collect();
            let game_id = line_split[0]
                .split(' ')
                .collect::>()
                .last()
                .expect("item exists")
                .parse::()
                .expect("is a number");
            let rest = line_split[1];
            let cube_sets = rest.split(';');
            let samples: Vec = cube_sets
                .map(|set| {
                    let set_split: Vec<_> = set.split(',').collect();
                    let r = split_cube_set(&set_split, "red").unwrap_or(0);
                    let g = split_cube_set(&set_split, "green").unwrap_or(0);
                    let b = split_cube_set(&set_split, "blue").unwrap_or(0);
                    Sample { r, g, b }
                })
                .collect();
            let mut highest_r = 0;
            let mut highest_g = 0;
            let mut highest_b = 0;
            for sample in &samples {
                if !(sample.r <= max_r && sample.g <= max_g && sample.b <= max_b) {
                    valid_game = false;
                }
                highest_r = u32::max(highest_r, sample.r);
                highest_g = u32::max(highest_g, sample.g);
                highest_b = u32::max(highest_b, sample.b);
            }
            if valid_game {
                valid_game_ids_sum += game_id;
            }
            game_power_sum += highest_r * highest_g * highest_b;
        }
        println!("Sum of game ids: {valid_game_ids_sum}");
        println!("Sum of game powers: {game_power_sum}");
        Ok(())
    }
    
  • Was pretty simple in Python with a regex to get the game number, and then the count of color. for part 2 instead of returning true/false whether the game is valid, you just max the count per color. No traps like in the first one, that I've seen, so it was surprisingly easy

    def process_game(line: str):
        game_id = int(re.findall(r'game (\d+)*', line)[0])
    
        colon_idx = line.index(":")
        draws = line[colon_idx+1:].split(";")
        # print(draws)
        
        if is_game_valid(draws):
            # print("Game %d is possible"%game_id)
            return game_id
        return 0
    
                
    def is_game_valid(draws: list):
        for draw in draws:
            red = get_nr_of_in_draw(draw, 'red')
            if red > MAX_RED:
                return False
            
            green = get_nr_of_in_draw(draw, 'green')
            if green > MAX_GREEN:
                return False
            
            blue = get_nr_of_in_draw(draw, 'blue')
            if blue > MAX_BLUE:
                return False    
        return True
            
                
    def get_nr_of_in_draw(draw: str, color: str):
        if color in draw:
            nr = re.findall(r'(\d+) '+color, draw)
            return int(nr[0])
        return 0
    
    
    # f = open("input.txt", "r")
    f = open("input_real.txt", "r")
    lines = f.readlines()
    sum = 0
    for line in lines:
        sum += process_game(line.strip().lower())
    print("Answer: %d"%sum)
    
  • Rust (Rank 7421/6311) (Time after start 00:32:27/00:35:35)

    Extremely easy part 2 today, I would say easier than part 1 but they share the same sort of framework

    Code Block

    (Note lemmy removed some characters, code link shows them all)

    use std::fs;
    
    fn part1(input: String) -> i32 {
        const RED: i32 = 12;
        const GREEN: i32 = 13;
        const BLUE: i32 = 14;
    
        let mut sum = 0;
    
        for line in input.lines() {
            let [id, content] = line.split(": ").collect::>()[0..2] else { continue };
            let id = id.split(" ").collect::>()[1].parse::().unwrap();
    
            let marbles = content.split("; ").map(|x| { x.split(", ").collect::>() }).collect::>>();
            let mut valid = true;
    
            for selection in marbles {
                for marble in selection {
                    let marble_split = marble.split(" ").collect::>();
                    let marble_amount = marble_split[0].parse::().unwrap();
                    let marble_color = marble_split[1];
    
                    if marble_color == "red" && marble_amount > RED {
                        valid = false;
                        break;
                    }
    
                    if marble_color == "green" && marble_amount > GREEN {
                        valid = false;
                        break;
                    }
    
                    if marble_color == "blue" && marble_amount > BLUE {
                        valid = false;
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
    
            if !valid {
                continue;
            }
    
            sum += id;
        }
    
        return sum;
    }
    
    fn part2(input: String) -> i32 {
        let mut sum = 0;
    
        for line in input.lines() {
            let [id, content] = line.split(": ").collect::>()[0..2] else { continue };
            let id = id.split(" ").collect::>()[1].parse::().unwrap();
    
            let marbles = content.split("; ").map(|x| { x.split(", ").collect::>() }).collect::>>();
            
            let mut red = 0;
            let mut green = 0;
            let mut blue = 0;
    
            for selection in marbles {
                for marble in selection {
                    let marble_split = marble.split(" ").collect::>();
                    let marble_amount = marble_split[0].parse::().unwrap();
                    let marble_color = marble_split[1];
    
                    if marble_color == "red" && marble_amount > red {
                        red = marble_amount;
                    }
    
                    if marble_color == "green" && marble_amount > green {
                        green = marble_amount;
                    }
    
                    if marble_color == "blue" && marble_amount > blue {
                        blue = marble_amount;
                    }
                }
            }
    
            sum += red * green * blue;
        }
    
        return sum;
    }
    
    fn main() {
        let input = fs::read_to_string("data/input.txt").unwrap();
    
        println!("{}", part1(input.clone()));
        println!("{}", part2(input.clone()));
    }
    

    Code Link

  • Done in C# Input parsing done with a mixture of splits and Regex (no idea why everyone hates it?) capture groups.

    I have overbuilt for both days, but not tripped on any of the 'traps' in the input data - generally expecting the input to be worse than it is... too used to actual data from users

    Input Parsing (common)

    public class Day2RoundInput { private Regex gameNumRegex = new Regex("[a-z]* ([0-9]*)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);

        public Day2RoundInput(string gameString)
        {
            var colonSplit = gameString.Trim().Split(':', StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
            var match = gameNumRegex.Match(colonSplit[0].Trim());
            var gameNumberString = match.Groups[1].Value;
            GameNumber = int.Parse(gameNumberString.Trim());
    
            HandfulsOfCubes = new List();
            var roundsSplit = colonSplit[1].Trim().Split(';', StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
            foreach (var round in roundsSplit)
            {
                HandfulsOfCubes.Add(new HandfulCubes(round));
            }
        }
        public int GameNumber { get; set; }
    
        public List HandfulsOfCubes { get; set; }
    
        public class HandfulCubes
        {
            private Regex colourRegex = new Regex("([0-9]*) (red|green|blue)");
    
            public HandfulCubes(string roundString)
            {
                var colourCounts = roundString.Split(',', StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                foreach (var colour in colourCounts)
                {
                    var matches = colourRegex.Matches(colour.Trim());
    
                    foreach (Match match in matches)
                    {
                        var captureOne = match.Groups[1];
    
                        var count = int.Parse(captureOne.Value.Trim());
    
                        var captureTwo = match.Groups[2];
    
                        switch (captureTwo.Value.Trim().ToLower())
                        {
                            case "red":
                                RedCount = count;
                                break;
                            case "green":
                                GreenCount = count;
                                break;
                            case "blue":
                                BlueCount = count;
                                break;
                            default: throw new Exception("uh oh");
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
    
            public int RedCount { get; set; }
            public int GreenCount { get; set; }
            public int BlueCount { get; set; }
        }
    
    }
    
    Task1

    internal class Day2Task1:IRunnable { public void Run() { var inputs = GetInputs();

            var maxAllowedRed = 12;
            var maxAllowedGreen = 13;
            var maxAllowedBlue = 14;
    
            var allowedGameIdSum = 0;
    
            foreach ( var game in inputs ) { 
                var maxRed = game.HandfulsOfCubes.Select(h => h.RedCount).Max();
                var maxGreen = game.HandfulsOfCubes.Select(h => h.GreenCount).Max();
                var maxBlue = game.HandfulsOfCubes.Select(h => h.BlueCount).Max();
    
                if ( maxRed <= maxAllowedRed && maxGreen <= maxAllowedGreen && maxBlue <= maxAllowedBlue) 
                {
                    allowedGameIdSum += game.GameNumber;
                    Console.WriteLine("Game:" + game.GameNumber + " allowed");
                }
                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("Game:" + game.GameNumber + "not allowed");
                }
            }
    
            Console.WriteLine("Sum:" + allowedGameIdSum.ToString());
    
        }
    
        private List GetInputs()
        {
            List inputs = new List();
    
            var textLines = File.ReadAllLines("Days/Two/Day2Input.txt");
    
            foreach (var line in textLines)
            {
                inputs.Add(new Day2RoundInput(line));
            }
    
            return inputs;
        }
    
        
    }
    
    Task2

    internal class Day2Task2:IRunnable { public void Run() { var inputs = GetInputs();

            var result = 0;
    
            foreach ( var game in inputs ) {
                var maxRed = game.HandfulsOfCubes.Select(h => h.RedCount).Max();
                var maxGreen = game.HandfulsOfCubes.Select(h => h.GreenCount).Max();
                var maxBlue = game.HandfulsOfCubes.Select(h => h.BlueCount).Max();
    
                var power = maxRed*maxGreen*maxBlue;
                Console.WriteLine("Game:" + game.GameNumber + " Result:" + power.ToString());
    
                result += power;
            }
    
            Console.WriteLine("Day2 Task2 Result:" + result.ToString());
    
        }
    
        private List GetInputs()
        {
            List inputs = new List();
    
            var textLines = File.ReadAllLines("Days/Two/Day2Input.txt");
            //var textLines = File.ReadAllLines("Days/Two/Day2ExampleInput.txt");
    
            foreach (var line in textLines)
            {
                inputs.Add(new Day2RoundInput(line));
            }
    
            return inputs;
        }
    
        
    }
    
  • Today in Zig

    Spent most of the time running down annoying typos in the tokenizer.

  • C# - a tad bit overkill for this. I was worried that we'd need more statistical analysis in part 2, so I designed my solution around that. I ended up cutting everything back when Max() was enough for both parts.

    https://github.com/warriordog/advent-of-code-2023/tree/main/Solutions/Day02

  • String parsing! Always fun in C!

    https://github.com/sjmulder/aoc/blob/master/2023/c/day02.c

    int main(int argc, char **argv)
    {
    	char ln[256], *sr,*srd,*s;
    	int p1=0,p2=0, id, r,g,b;
    
    	for (id=1; (sr = fgets(ln, sizeof(ln), stdin)); id++) {
    		strsep(&sr, ":");
    		r = g = b = 0;
    
    		while ((srd = strsep(&sr, ";")))
    		while ((s = strsep(&srd, ",")))
    			if (strchr(s, 'd')) r = MAX(r, atoi(s)); else
    			if (strchr(s, 'g')) g = MAX(g, atoi(s)); else
    			if (strchr(s, 'b')) b = MAX(b, atoi(s));
    	
    		p1 += (r <= 12 && g <= 13 && b <= 14) * id;
    		p2 += r * g * b;
    	}
    
    	printf("%d %d\n", p1, p2);
    	return 0;
    }
    
  • A solution in Nim language. Pretty straightforward code. Most logic is just parsing input + a bit of functional utils: allIt checks if all items in a list within limits to check if game is possible and mapIt collects red, green, blue cubes from each set of game.

    https://codeberg.org/Archargelod/aoc23-nim/src/branch/master/day_02/solution.nim

    import std/[strutils, strformat, sequtils]
    
    type AOCSolution[T] = tuple[part1: T, part2: T]
    
    type
      GameSet = object
        red, green, blue: int
      Game = object
        id: int
        sets: seq[GameSet]
    
    const MaxSet = GameSet(red: 12, green: 13, blue: 14)
    
    func parseGame(input: string): Game =
      result.id = input.split({':', ' '})[1].parseInt()
      let sets = input.split(": ")[1].split("; ").mapIt(it.split(", "))
      for gSet in sets:
        var gs = GameSet()
        for pair in gSet:
          let
            pair = pair.split()
            cCount = pair[0].parseInt
            cName = pair[1]
    
          case cName:
          of "red":
            gs.red = cCount
          of "green":
            gs.green = cCount
          of "blue":
            gs.blue = cCount
    
        result.sets.add gs
    
    func isPossible(g: Game): bool =
      g.sets.allIt(
        it.red <= MaxSet.red and
        it.green <= MaxSet.green and
        it.blue <= MaxSet.blue
      )
    
    
    func solve(lines: seq[string]): AOCSolution[int]=
      for line in lines:
        let game = line.parseGame()
    
        block p1:
          if game.isPossible():
            result.part1 += game.id
    
        block p2:
          let
            minRed = game.sets.mapIt(it.red).max()
            minGreen = game.sets.mapIt(it.green).max()
            minBlue = game.sets.mapIt(it.blue).max()
    
          result.part2 += minRed * minGreen * minBlue
    
    
    when isMainModule:
      let input = readFile("./input.txt").strip()
      let (part1, part2) = solve(input.splitLines())
    
      echo &"Part 1: The sum of valid game IDs equals {part1}."
      echo &"Part 2: The sum of the sets' powers equals {part2}."
    
  • Did mine in Odin. Found this day's to be super easy, most of the challenge was just parsing.

    package day2
    
    import "core:fmt"
    import "core:strings"
    import "core:strconv"
    import "core:unicode"
    
    Round :: struct {
        red: int,
        green: int,
        blue: int,
    }
    
    parse_round :: proc(s: string) -> Round {
        ret: Round
    
        rest := s
        for {
            nextNumAt := strings.index_proc(rest, unicode.is_digit)
            if nextNumAt == -1 do break
            rest = rest[nextNumAt:]
    
            numlen: int
            num, ok := strconv.parse_int(rest, 10, &numlen)
            rest = rest[numlen+len(" "):]
    
            if rest[:3] == "red" {
                ret.red = num
            } else if rest[:4] == "blue" {
                ret.blue = num
            } else if rest[:5] == "green" {
                ret.green = num
            }
        }
    
        return ret
    }
    
    Game :: struct {
        id: int,
        rounds: [dynamic]Round,
    }
    
    parse_game :: proc(s: string) -> Game {
        ret: Game
    
        rest := s[len("Game "):]
    
        idOk: bool
        idLen: int
        ret.id, idOk = strconv.parse_int(rest, 10, &idLen)
        rest = rest[idLen+len(": "):]
    
        for len(rest) > 0 {
            endOfRound := strings.index_rune(rest, ';')
            if endOfRound == -1 do endOfRound = len(rest)
    
            append(&ret.rounds, parse_round(rest[:endOfRound]))
            rest = rest[min(endOfRound+1, len(rest)):]
        }
    
        return ret
    }
    
    is_game_possible :: proc(game: Game) -> bool {
        for round in game.rounds {
            if round.red   > 12 ||
               round.green > 13 ||
               round.blue  > 14 {
                return false
            }
        }
        return true
    }
    
    p1 :: proc(input: []string) {
        totalIds := 0
    
        for line in input {
            game := parse_game(line)
            defer delete(game.rounds)
    
            if is_game_possible(game) do totalIds += game.id
        }
    
        fmt.println(totalIds)
    }
    
    p2 :: proc(input: []string) {
        totalPower := 0
    
        for line in input {
            game := parse_game(line)
            defer delete(game.rounds)
    
            minRed   := 0
            minGreen := 0
            minBlue  := 0
            for round in game.rounds {
                minRed   = max(minRed  , round.red  )
                minGreen = max(minGreen, round.green)
                minBlue  = max(minBlue , round.blue )
            }
    
            totalPower += minRed * minGreen * minBlue
        }
    
        fmt.println(totalPower)
    }
    
  • My solutions in C: https://git.sr.ht/~aidenisik/aoc23/tree/master/item/day2

    Most of this is just reading the data, surely there's a better way to do this lol.

  • Dart solution

    Quite straightforward, though there's a sneaky trap in the test data for those of us who don't read the rules carefully enough.

    Read, run and edit this solution in your browser: https://dartpad.dev/?id=203b3f0a9a1ad7a51daf14a1aeb6cf67

    parseLine(String s) {
      var game = s.split(': ');
      var num = int.parse(game.first.split(' ').last);
      var rounds = game.last.split('; ');
      var cubes = [
        for (var (e) in rounds)
          {
            for (var ee in e.split(', '))
              ee.split(' ').last: int.parse(ee.split(' ').first)
          }
      ];
      return MapEntry(num, cubes);
    }
    
    /// collects the max of the counts from both maps.
    Map merge2(Map a, Map b) => {
          for (var k in {...a.keys, ...b.keys}) k: max(a[k] ?? 0, b[k] ?? 0)
        };
    
    var limit = {"red": 12, "green": 13, "blue": 14};
    
    bool isGood(Map test) =>
        limit.entries.every((e) => (test[e.key] ?? 0) <= e.value);
    
    part1(List lines) => lines
        .map(parseLine)
        .where((e) => e.value.every(isGood))
        .map((e) => e.key)
        .sum;
    
    part2(List lines) => lines
        .map(parseLine)
        .map((e) => e.value.reduce(merge2))
        .map((e) => e.values.reduce((s, t) => s * t))
        .sum;
    
  • My (awful) Python solves. Much easier than day 1's, although I did run into an issue with trimming whitespace characters with my approach (Game 96 wouldn't flag properly).

    Part 1
    with open('02A_input.txt', 'r') as file:
        data = file.readlines()
        
    possibleGames=[]
    
    for game in data:
        # Find Game number
        game = game.removeprefix("Game ")
        gameNumber = int(game[0:game.find(":")])
        # Break Game into rounds (split using semicolons)
        game=game[game.find(":")+1:]
        rounds=game.split(";")
        # For each round, determine the maximum number of Red, Blue, Green items shown at a time
        rgb=[0,0,0]
        for round in rounds:
            combos=round.split(",")
            for combo in combos:
                combo=combo.strip()
                number=int(combo[0:combo.find(" ")])
                if combo.endswith("red"):
                    if number>rgb[0]:
                        rgb[0]=number
                elif combo.endswith("green"):
                    if number>rgb[1]:
                        rgb[1]=number
                elif combo.endswith("blue"):
                    if number>rgb[2]:
                        rgb[2]=number
        # If Red>12, Green>13, Blue>14, append Game number to possibleGames
        if not (rgb[0]>12 or rgb[1]>13 or rgb[2]>14):
            possibleGames.append(gameNumber)
    
    print(sum(possibleGames))
    
    Part 2
    with open('02A_input.txt', 'r') as file:
        data = file.readlines()
        
    powers=[]
    
    for game in data:
        # Find Game number
        game = game.removeprefix("Game ")
        # Break Game into rounds (split using semicolons)
        game=game[game.find(":")+1:]
        rounds=game.split(";")
        # For each round, determine the maximum number of Red, Blue, Green items shown at a time
        # Note: This could be faster, since we don't need to worry about actual rounds
        rgb=[0,0,0]
        for round in rounds:
            combos=round.split(",")
            for combo in combos:
                combo=combo.strip()
                number=int(combo[0:combo.find(" ")])
                if combo.endswith("red"):
                    if number>rgb[0]:
                        rgb[0]=number
                elif combo.endswith("green"):
                    if number>rgb[1]:
                        rgb[1]=number
                elif combo.endswith("blue"):
                    if number>rgb[2]:
                        rgb[2]=number
        # Multiple R, G, B to find the "power" of the game
        # Append Power to the list
        powers.append(rgb[0]*rgb[1]*rgb[2])
        
    print(sum(powers))
    
  • crystal

    (commented parts are for part 1)

    input = File.read("input.txt").lines
    
    limits = {"red"=> 12, "green"=> 13, "blue"=> 14}
    # possibles = [] of Int32
    powers = [] of Int32
    
    input.each do |line|
    	game = line.split(":")
    	id = game[0].split()[1].to_i
    	possible = true
    	min = {"red"=> 0, "green"=> 0, "blue"=> 0}
    	
    	draws = game[1].split(";", &.split(",") do |cube|
    		cubeinfo = cube.split
    		num = cubeinfo[0].to_i
    		
    		min[cubeinfo[1]] = num if num > min[cubeinfo[1]] 
    		
    		# unless num <= limits[cubeinfo[1]]
    		# 	possible = false
    		# 	break
    		# end 
    	end )
    	
    	powers.push(min.values.product)
    	# possibles.push(id) if possible
    end
    # puts possibles.sum
    puts powers.sum
    
  • My solution in python

    input="""Game 1: 3 blue, 4 red; 1 red, 2 green, 6 blue; 2 green
    Game 2: 1 blue, 2 green; 3 green, 4 blue, 1 red; 1 green, 1 blue
    Game 3: 8 green, 6 blue, 20 red; 5 blue, 4 red, 13 green; 5 green, 1 red
    Game 4: 1 green, 3 red, 6 blue; 3 green, 6 red; 3 green, 15 blue, 14 red
    Game 5: 6 red, 1 blue, 3 green; 2 blue, 1 red, 2 green"""
    
    def parse(line):
        data={}
        data['game']=int(line[5:line.index(':')])
        data['hands']=[]
        for str in line[line.index(':')+1:].split(';'):
            h={'red':0,'green':0,'blue':0}
            for str2 in str.split(','):
                tmp=str2.strip(' ').split(' ')
                h[tmp[1]]=int(tmp[0])
            data['hands'].append(h)
    
        data['max_red']=max([x['red'] for x in data['hands']])
        data['max_green']=max([x['green'] for x in data['hands']])
        data['max_blue']=max([x['blue'] for x in data['hands']])
        data['power']=data['max_red']*data['max_green']*data['max_blue']
        data['possible'] = True
        if data['max_red'] > 12:
            data['possible'] = False
        if data['max_green'] > 13:
            data['possible'] = False
        if data['max_blue'] > 14:
            data['possible'] = False
    
    
        return data
    def loadFile(path):
        with open(path,'r') as f:
            return f.read()
    
    if __name__ == '__main__':
        input=loadFile('day2_input')
        res=[]
        total=0
        power_sum=0
        for row in input.split('\n'):
            data=parse(row)
            if data['possible']:
                total=total+data['game']
            power_sum=power_sum+data['power']
        print('total: %s, power: %s ' % (total,power_sum,))
    
  • Python, interesting that the readMax function that I created on part 1 was also what I needed for part 2. https://github.com/massahud/advent-of-code-2023/blob/main/day02/day02.ipynb

  • Haskell

    A rather opaque parser, but much shorter than I could manage with Parsec.

    import Data.Bifunctor
    import Data.List.Split
    import Data.Map.Strict (Map)
    import qualified Data.Map.Strict as Map
    import Data.Tuple
    
    readGame :: String -> (Int, [Map String Int])
    readGame = bimap (read . drop 5) (map readPull . splitOn "; " . drop 2) . break (== ':')
      where
        readPull = Map.fromList . map (swap . bimap read tail . break (== ' ')) . splitOn ", "
    
    possibleWith limit = and . Map.intersectionWith (>=) limit
    
    main = do
      games <- map (fmap (Map.unionsWith max) . readGame) . lines <$> readFile "input02"
      let limit = Map.fromList [("red", 12), ("green", 13), ("blue", 14)]
      print $ sum $ map fst $ filter (possibleWith limit . snd) games
      print $ sum $ map (product . snd) games
    
  • [LANGUAGE: C#]

    Part 1:

    var list = new List((await File.ReadAllLinesAsync(@".\Day 2\PuzzleInput.txt")));
    int conter = 0;
    foreach (var line in list)
    {
        string[] split = line.Split(":");
        int game = Int32.Parse( split[0].Split(" ")[1]);
        string[] bagContents = split[1].Split(";");
        var max = new Dictionary() { { "red", 0 }, { "green", 0 }, { "blue", 0 } };
        foreach (var content in bagContents)
        {
            string pattern = @"(\d+) (\w+)";
            MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(content, pattern);
    
            foreach (Match match in matches)
            {
                int number = Int32.Parse(match.Groups[1].Value);
                string color = match.Groups[2].Value;
                max[color] = (max[color] >= number)? max[color] : number;
            }
        }
        conter += (max["red"] <= 12 && max["green"] <= 13 && max["blue"] <= 14) ? game : 0;
    
    }
    Console.WriteLine(conter);
    

    Part 2:

    var list = new List((await File.ReadAllLinesAsync(@".\Day 2\PuzzleInput.txt")));
    
    int conter = 0;
    foreach (var line in list)
    {
        string[] split = line.Split(":");
        int game = Int32.Parse(split[0].Split(" ")[1]);
        string[] bagContents = split[1].Split(";");
            var max = new Dictionary();
        foreach (var content in bagContents)
        {
            string pattern = @"(\d+) (\w+)";
    
            MatchCollection matches = Regex.Matches(content, pattern);
    
            foreach (Match match in matches)
            {
                int number = Int32.Parse(match.Groups[1].Value);
                string color = match.Groups[2].Value;
                if (!max.ContainsKey(color))
                    max[color] = number;
                else if(max[color] < number)
                    max[color] = number;
            }
        }
        conter += max.Values.Aggregate(1, (total, value) => total *  value );
    
    }
    Console.WriteLine(conter);
    
  • Python

    Questions and feedback welcome!

    import collections
    
    from .solver import Solver
    
    class Day02(Solver):
      def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(2)
        self.games = []
    
      def presolve(self, input: str):
        lines = input.rstrip().split('\n')
        for line in lines:
          draws = line.split(': ')[1].split('; ')
          draws = [draw.split(', ') for draw in draws]
          self.games.append(draws)
    
      def solve_first_star(self):
        game_id = 0
        total = 0
        for game in self.games:
          game_id += 1
          is_good = True
          for draw in game:
            for item in draw:
              count, colour = item.split(' ')
              if (colour == 'red' and int(count) > 12 or  # pylint: disable=too-many-boolean-expressions
                    colour == 'blue' and int(count) > 14 or
                    colour == 'green' and int(count) > 13):
                is_good = False
          if is_good:
            total += game_id
        return total
    
      def solve_second_star(self):
        total = 0
        for game in self.games:
          minimums = collections.defaultdict(lambda: 0)
          for draw in game:
            for item in draw:
              count, colour = item.split(' ')
              minimums[colour] = max(minimums[colour], int(count))
          power = minimums['red'] * minimums['blue'] * minimums['green']
          total += power
        return total
    
  • [Language: Lean4]

    I'll only post the actual parsing and solution. I have written some helpers which are in other files, as is the main function. For the full code, please see my github repo.

    Solution
    structure Draw (α : Type) where
      red : α
      green : α
      blue : α
      deriving Repr
    
    structure Game where
      id : Nat
      draw : List $ Draw Nat
      deriving Repr
    
    def parse (input : String) : Option $ List Game :=
      let lines := input.splitTrim (. == '\n')
      let lines := lines.filter (not ∘ String.isEmpty)
      let parse_single_line : (String → Option Game):= λ (l : String) ↦ do
        let parse_id := λ (s : String) ↦ do
          let rest ← if s.startsWith "Game " then some (s.drop 5) else none
          rest.toNat?
        let parse_draw := λ (s : String) ↦ do
          let s := s.splitTrim (· == ',')
          let findAndRemoveTail := λ (s : String) (t : String) ↦
            if s.endsWith t then
              some $ String.dropRight s (t.length)
            else
              none
          let update_draw_parse := λ (pd : Option (Draw (Option String))) (c : String) ↦ do
            let old ← pd
            let red := findAndRemoveTail c " red"
            let green := findAndRemoveTail c " green"
            let blue := findAndRemoveTail c " blue"
            match red, green, blue with
            | some red, none, none => match old.red with
              | none => some $ {old with red := some red}
              | some _ => none
            | none, some green, none => match old.green with
              | none => some $ {old with green := some green}
              | some _ => none
            | none, none, some blue => match old.blue with
              | none => some $ {old with blue := some blue}
              | some _ => none
            | _, _, _  => none
          let parsed_draw ← s.foldl update_draw_parse (some $ Draw.mk none none none)
          let parsed_draw := {
            red := String.toNat? <$> parsed_draw.red,
            green := String.toNat? <$> parsed_draw.green,
            blue := String.toNat? <$> parsed_draw.blue : Draw _}
          let extractOrFail := λ (s : Option $ Option Nat) ↦ match s with
            | none => some 0
            | some none => none
            | some $ some x => some x
          let red ← extractOrFail parsed_draw.red
          let green ← extractOrFail parsed_draw.green
          let blue ← extractOrFail parsed_draw.blue
          pure { red := red, blue := blue, green := green : Draw _}
        let parse_draws := λ s ↦ List.mapM parse_draw $ s.splitTrim (· == ';')
        let (id, draw) ← match l.splitTrim (· == ':') with
        | [l, r] => Option.zip (parse_id l) (parse_draws r)
        | _ => none
        pure { id := id, draw := draw}
      lines.mapM parse_single_line
    
    def part1 (games : List Game) : Nat :=
      let draw_possible := λ g ↦ g.red ≤ 12 && g.green ≤ 13 && g.blue ≤ 14
      let possible := flip List.all draw_possible
      let possible_games := games.filter (possible ∘ Game.draw)
      possible_games.map Game.id |> List.foldl Nat.add 0
    
    def part2 (games : List Game) : Nat :=
      let powerOfGame := λ (g : Game) ↦
        let minReq := λ (c : Draw Nat → Nat) ↦
          g.draw.map c |> List.maximum? |> flip Option.getD 0
        minReq Draw.red * minReq Draw.green * minReq Draw.blue
      let powers := games.map powerOfGame
      powers.foldl Nat.add 0
    
  • Is anyone else like me, but it took me longer to understand what I was supposed to do on day 2 than on day 1? However, here is my solution written in Golang: https://github.com/alexruf/adventofcode2023/tree/main/d02

    • It was confusing. It took me 3 tries to write the parser. The first time I didn’t realize there were multiple observations per game and the second time for some reason I was convinced the color came first.

  • Just getting started with Rust, part 1 took a long time. Really amazed when I saw part 2, just needed to add 2 lines and was done due to the approach I had taken. Feedback more than welcome!

    use std::{
        cmp, fs,
        io::{BufRead, BufReader},
    };
    
    fn main() {
        cube_conundrum_complete();
    }
    
    fn cube_conundrum_complete() {
        // Load the data file
        let filename = "./data/input_data/day_2_cubes.txt";
        let file = match fs::File::open(filename) {
            Ok(f) => f,
            Err(e) => {
                eprintln!("Error opening file: {}", e);
                return;
            }
        };
        let reader = BufReader::new(file);
    
        // iniatiate final results
        let mut total = 0;
        let mut total_power = 0;
    
        // loop over the games in the file
        for _line in reader.lines() {
            // Handle the data and extract game number and maximum number of cubes per color
            let (game_number, max_green, max_red, max_blue) = cube_conundrum_data_input(_line.unwrap());
    
            // Calculate the power for the day 2 result
            total_power += max_green * max_red * max_blue;
    
            //Calculate if the game was possible with the given number of cubes
            let result = cube_conundrum_game_possible(game_number, max_green, max_red, max_blue);
            total += result;
        }
    
        // print the final results
        println!("total part 1: {}", total);
        println!("total part 2: {}", total_power);
    }
    
    fn cube_conundrum_data_input(game_input: String) -> (i32, i32, i32, i32) {
        // Split the game number from the draws
        let (game_part, data_part) = game_input.split_once(":").unwrap();
    
        // Select the number of the round and parse into an integer
        let game_number: i32 = game_part
            .split_once(" ")
            .unwrap()
            .1
            .parse::()
            .expect("could not parse gamenumber to integer");
    
        // Split the data part into a vector both split on , and ; cause we only care about he maximum per color
        let parts: Vec<&str> = data_part
            .split(|c| c == ',' || c == ';')
            .map(|part| part.trim())
            .collect();
    
        // Set the intial values for the maximum per color to 0
        let (mut max_green, mut max_red, mut max_blue) = (0, 0, 0);
    
        // Loop over the different draws split them into color and nubmer of cubes, update maximum number of cubes
        for part in parts.iter() {
            let (nr_cubes_text, color) = part.split_once(" ").unwrap();
            let nr_cubes = nr_cubes_text
                .parse::()
                .expect("could not parse to integer");
            match color {
                "green" => max_green = cmp::max(max_green, nr_cubes),
                "red" => max_red = cmp::max(max_red, nr_cubes),
                "blue" => max_blue = cmp::max(max_blue, nr_cubes),
                _ => println!("unknown color: {}", color),
            };
        }
    
        return (game_number, max_green, max_red, max_blue);
    }
    
    fn cube_conundrum_game_possible(
        game_number: i32,
        max_green: i32,
        max_red: i32,
        max_blue: i32,
    ) -> i32 {
        // Compare the number of seen cubes per game with the proposed number. Return the game number if it was possible, otherwise 0
        let (comparison_red, comparison_green, comparison_blue) = (12, 13, 14);
        if max_green > comparison_green || max_red > comparison_red || max_blue > comparison_blue {
            return 0;
        };
        game_number
    }
    
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