Day 10: Hoof It

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FAQ

  • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
    2·
    2 days ago

    Nice to have a really simple one for a change, both my day 1 and 2 solutions worked on their very first attempts.
    I rewrote the code to combine the two though, since the implementations were almost identical for both solutions, and also to replace the recursion with a search list instead.

    C# 
    int[] heights = new int[0];
(int, int) size = (0, 0);

public void Input(IEnumerable<string> lines)
{
  size = (lines.First().Length, lines.Count());
  heights = string.Concat(lines).Select(c => int.Parse(c.ToString())).ToArray();
}

int trails = 0, trailheads = 0;
public void PreCalc()
{
  for (int y = 0; y < size.Item2; ++y)
    for (int x = 0; x < size.Item1; ++x)
      if (heights[y * size.Item1 + x] == 0)
      {
        var unique = new HashSet<(int, int)>();
        trails += CountTrails((x, y), unique);
        trailheads += unique.Count;
      }
}

public void Part1()
{
  Console.WriteLine($"Trailheads: {trailheads}");
}
public void Part2()
{
  Console.WriteLine($"Trails: {trails}");
}

int CountTrails((int, int) from, HashSet<(int,int)> unique)
{
  int found = 0;

  List<(int,int)> toSearch = new List<(int, int)>();
  toSearch.Add(from);

  while (toSearch.Any())
  {
    var cur = toSearch.First();
    toSearch.RemoveAt(0);

    int height = heights[cur.Item2 * size.Item1 + cur.Item1];
    for (int y = -1; y <= 1; ++y)
      for (int x = -1; x <= 1; ++x)
      {
        if ((y != 0 && x != 0) || (y == 0 && x == 0))
          continue;

        var newAt = (cur.Item1 + x, cur.Item2 + y);
        if (newAt.Item1 < 0 || newAt.Item1 >= size.Item1 || newAt.Item2 < 0 || newAt.Item2 >= size.Item2)
          continue;

        int newHeight = heights[newAt.Item2 * size.Item1 + newAt.Item1];
        if (newHeight - height != 1)
          continue;

        if (newHeight == 9)
        {
          unique.Add(newAt);
          found++;
          continue;
        }

        toSearch.Add(newAt);
      }
  }

  return found;
}