Day 1: Historian Hysteria

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FAQ

  • aurele
    1·
    6 days ago

    Elixir

    defmodule AdventOfCode.Solution.Year2024.Day01 do
  use AdventOfCode.Solution.SharedParse

  @impl true
  def parse(input) do
    numbers =
      input
      |> String.split("\n", trim: true)
      |> Enum.map(fn l -> String.split(l, ~r/\s+/) |> Enum.map(&String.to_integer/1) end)

    {Stream.map(numbers, &Enum.at(&1, 0)), Stream.map(numbers, &Enum.at(&1, 1))}
  end

  def part1({left, right}) do
    Enum.zip_reduce(Enum.sort(left), Enum.sort(right), 0, &(&3 + abs(&1 - &2)))
  end

  def part2({left, right}) do
    freq = Enum.frequencies(right)
    left |> Stream.map(&(&1 * Map.get(freq, &1, 0))) |> Enum.sum()
  end
end