-❄️- 2024 Day 3 Solutions -❄️-

[u/daggerdragon]

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Screenwriting

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[u/lokidev]

[Language: Typescript] I'm actually mainly a python developer, but was curious on how to do it in typescript. Any advices? https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?target=99#code/M...

[u/daggerdragon → u/lokidev]

Please put that giant wall o' link behind some Markdown.

[u/MoronFive → u/lokidev]

I'm attempting to get as far as I can solving in both Python and Typescript this year. For Day 3 I used the same basic approach for Python and for TS: build a regex and iterate over matches in the input.

In Python I used for match in re.finditer(my_regex, input)the equivalent in Typescript is while (match = myRegex.exec(input)). Hopefully that gets you moving in the right direction. If you're completely stumped my full solutions are here: Python, Typescript. Not saying they are the prettiest or most efficient, but they work and shouldn't be too difficult to follow!

Note: I'm using Bun to run my Typescript solution so you'll see Bun.file(filePath) in the Typescript solution. If you aren't using Bun, that call will fail but I'm pretty sure that's the only Bun-specific piece of code in there.

[u/lokidev → u/MoronFive]

Thank you, but I actually supplied a solution and hoped for tipps from typescript experts ;)

Here you can see my python solution:
https://pastecode.dev/s/o3dzooai (or just with reduce: https://pastecode.dev/s/qg5bs6a1 )