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Day 4: Ceres Search

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[-] Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Rust

Ugh. Spent way too long on today's. Should have just used my own grid structure from last year. I will likely refactor to use that. Even though it's likely a super slow implementation, the convenience of dealing with it is better than shoehorning in the grid::Grid<T> from that crate.

solution (no supporting code)

use grid::Grid;

use crate::shared::{
    grid2d::{iter_diag_nesw, iter_diag_nwse, Point},
    util::read_lines,
};

fn parse_grid(input: &[String]) -> Grid<u8> {
    let cols = input.first().unwrap().len();
    Grid::from_vec(
        input
            .iter()
            .flat_map(|row| row.chars().map(|c| c as u8).collect::<Vec<u8>>())
            .collect(),
        cols,
    )
}

fn part1(grid: &Grid<u8>) -> usize {
    let mut xmas_count = 0;
    let rows = grid
        .iter_rows()
        .map(|d| String::from_utf8(d.copied().collect()).unwrap());
    let cols = grid
        .iter_cols()
        .map(|d| String::from_utf8(d.copied().collect()).unwrap());
    for diag in iter_diag_nesw(grid)
        .chain(iter_diag_nwse(grid))
        .filter_map(|d| {
            if d.len() >= 4 {
                Some(String::from_utf8(d.clone()).unwrap())
            } else {
                None
            }
        })
        .chain(rows)
        .chain(cols)
    {
        xmas_count += diag.matches("XMAS").count() + diag.matches("SAMX").count()
    }
    xmas_count
}

fn part2(grid: &Grid<u8>) -> usize {
    let mut xmas_count = 0;
    let valid = [
        [b'M', b'M', b'S', b'S'],
        [b'M', b'S', b'S', b'M'],
        [b'S', b'M', b'M', b'S'],
        [b'S', b'S', b'M', b'M'],
    ];
    for x in 1..grid.cols() - 1 {
        for y in 1..grid.rows() - 1 {
            if grid.get(y, x) == Some(&b'A')
                && valid.contains(
                    &(Point::new(x as isize, y as isize)
                        .diagonal_neighbors(grid)
                        .map(|i| i.unwrap_or(0))),
                )
            {
                xmas_count += 1;
            }
        }
    }
    xmas_count
}

pub fn solve() {
    let input = read_lines("inputs/day04.txt");
    let grid = parse_grid(&input);
    println!("Part 1: {}", part1(&grid));
    println!("Part 2: {}", part2(&grid));
}

And here's a link to the Github if you care to see the gross supporting code :D

this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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