aoc2022/src/bin/day3.rs

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/** Solution for Advent of Code 2022 day 3.
* https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/3
*/
use aoc2022::StdError;
use std::collections::HashSet;
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::{BufRead, BufReader};
fn main() -> StdError<()> {
// Open the input file and split all the lines.
let lines: Vec<_> = BufReader::new(File::open("input/day3.txt")?)
.lines()
.collect::<Result<_, _>>()?; // "Short circuit" any Errors in the iterator
let sum: u32 = lines
.iter()
.map(|l| {
assert!(l.len() % 2 == 0); // We won't be able to evenly split a odd-length line!
let (one, two) = (&l[0..l.len() / 2], &l[l.len() / 2..]);
// Make sets out of the characters in each compartment...
HashSet::<char>::from_iter(one.chars())
// ... then calculate the intersection, giving us the "items" (chars) in common
.intersection(&HashSet::from_iter(two.chars()))
.map(|c| match c {
// Now, we map our "items" to their "priorities".
// Fortunately we can cast all chars to u32, which makes this a matter of some
// simple arithmetic.
'a'..='z' => (*c as u32) - 'a' as u32 + 1,
'A'..='Z' => (*c as u32) - 'A' as u32 + 27,
_ => panic!("Got non-ascii alphabetic char!"),
})
.sum::<u32>() // Sum the priorities of items in common in each "rucksack"
})
.sum(); // Sum all the rucksacks' priorities
println!("Part 1: {}", sum);
Ok(())
}