Day 1: Historian Hysteria
Megathread guidelines
- Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
- You can send code in code blocks by using three backticks, the code, and then three backticks or use something such as https://blocks.programming.dev if you prefer sending it through a URL
FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/22323136
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465
Viml
I think viml is a very fun language, i like weird languages lol, so this year im doing it in viml while trying to use as many of the original ed/ex commands as i can (:d, :p, :a, :g, …)
Part 1
!cp ./puzzle1 ./puzzle1.editing e ./puzzle1.editing 1,$sort let row1 = [] g/^\d/let row1 = add(row1, str2nr(expand("<cword>"))) | norm 0dw 1d 1,$sort g/^\d/execute 'norm cc' .. string(abs(expand("<cword>") - row1[line('.') - 1])) $a|---ANSWER--- 0 . 1,$-1g/^\d/call setline("$", str2nr(getline("$")) + str2nr(expand("<cword>")))Part 2
read ./puzzle1 let cnt = 0 g/^\d/let cnt += expand("<cword>") * \ searchcount(#{pattern: '\s\+' .. expand("<cword>")}).total echo cnt .. "\n" w! ./puzzle1.editing