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Implement Day 13 mirror line finding
Walking in a loop didn't work, but consecutive pairs give a great
starting point. And there might even be a more Ruby-ish version
of the WHILE loop using zip, reverse and array ranges.
author | IBBoard <dev@ibboard.co.uk> |
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date | Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:32:13 +0000 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/day13.rb Wed Dec 13 20:32:13 2023 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +#! /usr/bin/env ruby + +if ARGV.length != 1 + abort("Incorrect arguments - needs input file") +elsif not File.exist? (ARGV[0]) + abort("File #{ARGV[0]} did not exist") +end + +file = ARGV[0] + +maps = File.open(file, "r").each_line().map(&:chomp).chunk_while {|before, after| before.length == after.length}.filter {|chunk| chunk != [""]}.map {|chunk| chunk.map{|row| row.each_char.to_a}} + +def find_reflection(data) + candidate_start = data.each_cons(2).with_index.flat_map {|vals,idx| a,b = vals; a == b ? [idx] : []} + valid_starts = candidate_start.flat_map do |start| + pos = start + reflected = start + 1 + match = true + while pos > 0 and reflected < data.length - 1 + pos -= 1 + reflected += 1 + match = data[pos] == data[reflected] + break unless match + end + match ? [start + 1] : [] + end + valid_starts[0] +end + +puts maps.flat_map {|data| [find_reflection(data).to_i * 100, find_reflection(data.transpose()).to_i]}.sum \ No newline at end of file