Day 13: Claw Contraption
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Haskell, 14 ms. The hardest part was the parser today. I somehow thought that the buttons could have negative values in X or Y too, so it’s a bit overcomplicated.
I wasted hours on the parsing, because my regex
([0-9]*)
was giving me empty strings. Made me feel very dumb when I worked it outOops! Took me a while to spot it from your comment, too, so don’t feel too bad :)