Advent of code - Day 18
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Advent of code (17 Part Series)
Are you participating in the Advent of code this year?
If you don't know what the advent of code is, it's a website where you'll find a daily challenge (every day it gets harder). It's a really fun event, you should participate!
I try to solve the exercises using either JavaScript or TypeScript and will share my solutions daily (with one day delay so no one can cheat!). I only share the solution for the second part.
This one was super fun! I't just a question of priorities and RegEx, but it took me a while to have it working properly.
Not going to lie, I took the easy way and used eval to calculate the expression as soon as I had them in the right order!
Here is my solution for day #18:
function run(str) {
// + operations
if (str.match(/\d+ \+ \d+/)) {
const substr = /\d+ \+ \d+/.exec(str)[0]
return run(str.replace(substr, eval(substr)))
}
// if there is a number alone in a parenthesis, remove the parenthesis
if (str.match(/\(\d+\)/)) {
const aloneNumber = /\(\d+\)/.exec(str)[0]
return run(str.replace(aloneNumber, aloneNumber.slice(1, -1)))
}
// otherwise extract the content of a parenthesis
if (str.match(/\(\d+( [\*,\+] \d+)+\)/)) {
const parenthesisContent = /\(\d+( [\*,\+] \d+)+\)/.exec(str)[0]
return run(str.replace(parenthesisContent, run(parenthesisContent.slice(1, -1))))
}
return eval(str)
}
console.log(input.reduce((acc, str) => acc + run(str), 0))
Feel free to share your solution in the comments!
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