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Add failed and almost complete Day 12 part 1 Read some discussion around solutions in other languages, realised that recursion may work. And we can do caching. Also includes failed map/reduce attempts.
author IBBoard <dev@ibboard.co.uk>
date Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:04:27 +0000
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#! /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]

RowData = Struct.new(:symbols, :counts)
CandidateCollector = Struct.new(:completed, :pending)

def find_earliest_positions(symbols, counts)
        # We need to skip items (to separate each object) but I don't know enough Ruby to
        # do that in a map/reduce/etc (if it's even possible), so just use classic iteration
        char_pos = 0
        count_pos = 0
        match_start = 0
        earliest_matches = []
#        puts "Counts: #{counts}"
        while char_pos < symbols.length
                # FIXME: Doesn't take account of pre-existing fixed blocks if there are enough question marks
                if symbols[char_pos] != "."
                        if (char_pos - match_start + 1) == counts[count_pos]
                                if symbols[char_pos+1] != "#"
                                        earliest_matches << match_start
#                                        puts "At #{char_pos} found #{counts[count_pos]} chars from #{match_start} -- #{earliest_matches}"
                                        # We have to allow one space as well as moving on
                                        match_start = char_pos + 2
                                        count_pos += 1
                                else
                                        # We can't have found it because there's not a space! Shuffle along one.
                                        match_start += 1
                                end
                        # Else we're still in the middle of it
                        end
                elsif match_start < char_pos
                        match_start = char_pos + 1
                end
                char_pos += 1
        end
        earliest_matches
end

data = File.open(file, "r").each_line(chomp: true).map do |line|
        symbols, counts_str = line.split(" ")
        counts = counts_str.split(",").map(&:to_i)

        # There's nothing like Python's strip to strip all matching characters
        # So use a regex to just get the characters that could be items
        candidate_symbols = /\.*?([^.].+[^.]).*?/.match(symbols)[1]
        puts candidate_symbols
        earliest_matches = find_earliest_positions(candidate_symbols, counts)
        latest_matches = find_earliest_positions(candidate_symbols.reverse, counts.reverse).reverse.zip(counts).map {|pos, count| candidate_symbols.length - pos - count}
        puts "#{earliest_matches} to #{latest_matches}"
        # Assume lines are less than 100 chars and put a fake end in so we reduce to the end
        earliest_matches << 100
        latest_matches << 100
        ranges = earliest_matches.zip(latest_matches).map {|vals| Range.new(*vals)}
	sum = ranges.zip(counts).reduce([1, [(-1..-1), 0]]) do |accum, next_range_parts|
		size, cur_range_parts = accum
		cur_range, cur_count = cur_range_parts
		next_range, next_count = next_range_parts
        	
        	if cur_range.max >= next_range.min
        		# Overlap - do combinations
        		remaining_next_range = next_range.max - cur_range.max - cur_count
        		triangular = ((next_range.size * (next_range.size + 1)) / 2)
        		puts "#{remaining_next_range} => #{triangular}"
        		new_range = (cur_range.max + cur_count + 1)..next_range.end
        		[size * triangular, [new_range, next_count]]
        	else
        		puts "#{cur_range} => #{cur_range.size}"
        		[size * cur_range.size, next_range_parts]
        	end
        end
	puts sum[0]
        puts

=begin
        # Aborted attempt trying to use regex to start to find positions for us
        count_parts = counts.split(",").map {|count| "([#\?]{#{count.to_i}})"}
        counts_re = /[.?]*#{count_parts.join("[.?]+")}[.?]*/
        puts symbols
        match = symbols.match(counts_re)
        captures = match.captures
        puts "#{captures}"
        found = captures.map {|v| v.each_char.all?{|c| c == "#"}}
        puts "#{found}"
        puts captures.each.with_index(1).map {|v, i| "#{v} at #{match.offset(i)}"}
=end
        RowData.new(symbols, counts)
end
puts data
# Rest of algorithm here