Day 2: Cube Conundrum


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  • @anonymouse
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    18 months ago

    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
    }