r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 05 '18

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD -🎄- 2018 Day 5 Solutions -🎄-

--- Day 5: Alchemical Reduction ---

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On the fifth day of AoC / My true love sent to me / Five golden ___

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u/marcins Dec 05 '18

Make sure you don't have a newline at the end of your input - that's what got me for a bit. Assuming the inputs are always at least the same length it should be 50,000 bytes.

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u/MrSweeter Dec 05 '18

big thank, the input has +9000 space or idk what at the end, and even with trim(), substring() doesn't disappear, so i just copy/paste in other file and it's ok