Day 1: Historian Hysteria
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I have another Kotlin (albeit similar) solution:
import kotlin.math.abs fun main() { fun getLists(input: List<String>): Pair<List<Int>, List<Int>> { val unsortedPairs = input.map { it.split(" ").map { it.toInt() } } val listA = unsortedPairs.map { it.first() } val listB = unsortedPairs.map { it.last() } return Pair(listA, listB) } fun part1(input: List<String>): Int { val (listA, listB) = getLists(input) return listA.sorted().zip(listB.sorted()).sumOf { abs(it.first - it.second) } } fun part2(input: List<String>): Int { val (listA, listB) = getLists(input) return listA.sumOf { number -> number * listB.count { it == number } } } // Or read a large test input from the `src/Day01_test.txt` file: val testInput = readInput("Day01_test") check(part1(testInput) == 11) check(part2(testInput) == 31) // Read the input from the `src/Day01.txt` file. val input = readInput("Day01") part1(input).println() part2(input).println() }
It’s a bit more compact. (If you take out the part that actually calls the functions on the (test-)input.)
Thanks! I like the
Pair
destruction andzip().sumOf()
approach. I’m relatively new to Kotlin, so this is a good learning experience. 😅