Day 3: Mull It Over
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We can take advantage of the manageable size of the input to avoid explicit looping and mutable state; instead, construct vectors which give, for each character position in the input, the position of the most recent
do()
and most recentdon't()
; for part 2 a multiplication is enabled if the position of the most recentdo()
(counting start of input as 0) is greater than that of the most recentdon't()
(counting start of input as minus infinity).load 'regex' raw =: fread '3.data' mul_matches =: 'mul\(([[:digit:]]{1,3}),([[:digit:]]{1,3})\)' rxmatches raw NB. a b sublist y gives elements [a..b) of y sublist =: ({~(+i.)/)~"1 _ NB. ". is number parsing mul_results =: */"1 ". (}."2 mul_matches) sublist raw result1 =: +/ mul_results do_matches =: 'do\(\)' rxmatches raw dont_matches =: 'don''t\(\)' rxmatches raw match_indices =: (<0 0) & {"2 do_indices =: 0 , match_indices do_matches NB. start in do mode dont_indices =: match_indices dont_matches NB. take successive diffs, then append length from last index to end of string run_lengths =: (}. - }:) , (((#raw) & -) @: {:) do_map =: (run_lengths do_indices) # do_indices dont_map =: (({. , run_lengths) dont_indices) # __ , dont_indices enabled =: do_map > dont_map result2 =: +/ ((match_indices mul_matches) { enabled) * mul_results