Day 3: Mull It Over
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Python
After a bunch of fiddling yesterday and today I finally managed to arrive at a regex-only solution for part 2. That
re.DOTALL
is crucial here.import re from pathlib import Path def parse_input_one(input: str) -> list[tuple[int]]: p = re.compile(r"mul\((\d{1,3}),(\d{1,3})\)") return [(int(m[0]), int(m[1])) for m in p.findall(input)] def parse_input_two(input: str) -> list[tuple[int]]: p = re.compile(r"don't\(\).*?do\(\)|mul\((\d{1,3}),(\d{1,3})\)", re.DOTALL) return [(int(m[0]), int(m[1])) for m in p.findall(input) if m[0] and m[1]] def part_one(input: str) -> int: pairs = parse_input_one(input) return sum(map(lambda v: v[0] * v[1], pairs)) def part_two(input: str) -> int: pairs = parse_input_two(input) return sum(map(lambda v: v[0] * v[1], pairs)) if __name__ == "__main__": input = Path("input").read_text("utf-8") print(part_one(input)) print(part_two(input))