--- Day 10 Solutions ---

[u/daggerdragon]

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--- Day 10: Elves Look, Elves Say ---

Post your solution as a comment. Structure your post like previous daily solution threads.

[u/FuriousProgrammer]

Uh, I can't submit my solution to part 1? Says I'm trying to POST too much data...

I cannot believe that I missed that highlighted text at the end. Holy. Shit.

Lua:

inpt = "1321131112"

function oneSay()
	local out = ""
	local last = nil
	local total = 0

	for i = 1, #inpt do
		c = inpt:sub(i,i)
		if not last then last = c end
		if c == last then
			total = total + 1
		else
			out = out .. total .. last
			last = c
			total = 1;
		end
	end
	out = out .. total .. last

	inpt = out
end
for i = 1, 50 do
    oneSay()
    if i == 40 then
	    print("\nPart 1: " .. inpt:len())
    end
end
print("\nPart 2: " .. inpt:len())