package main import ( "bufio" "bytes" "fmt" "os" "strconv" ) func main() { fishies, err := readInput("input") if err != nil { fmt.Printf("Error reading or something\n%s", err) return } fishiesptr := &fishies // Run for i days for i := 0; i < 80; i++ { newfishies, _ := nextDay(*fishiesptr) fishiesptr = &newfishies fmt.Printf("On day %d: there are %d fishies\n", i+1, len(newfishies)) } } // Read the fishies slice and returns the slice of new fishies func nextDay(fishies []int) ([]int, error) { // For every fish (integer) in the slice, decrement by 1 if >= 1, reset to 6 if it was 0 // Also, if the number was 0, add a new fish with counter 8 to a second slice // After everything, append the slices and return the result newfishies := make([]int, 0) for i := 0; i < len(fishies); i++ { if fishies[i] >= 1 { fishies[i] -= 1 continue } if fishies[i] == 0 { fishies[i] = 6 newfishies = append(newfishies, 8) continue } } fishies = append(fishies, newfishies...) return fishies, nil } func readInput(inputfile string) ([]int, error) { file, err := os.OpenFile(inputfile, 0, 0) if err != nil { return nil, err } defer file.Close() splitfunc := func(data []byte, atEOF bool) (advance int, token []byte, err error) { nextIndex := bytes.IndexByte(data, ',') if nextIndex > 0 { // Returning the next position aka taking only the stuff up to nextIndex and slicing off everything else buffer := data[:nextIndex] // nextIndex plus 1 because index is at the comma, we want the next number return nextIndex + 1, bytes.TrimSpace(buffer), nil } // If we are at the end of the buffer, then return the entire buffer, but only if there is data if atEOF { if len(data) > 0 { return len(data), bytes.TrimSpace(data), nil } } // https://github.com/kgrz/reading-files-in-go/blob/master/comma-separated-string.go // For more info return 0, nil, nil } scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file) scanner.Split(splitfunc) fishies := make([]int, 0) for scanner.Scan() { fish, err := strconv.Atoi(scanner.Text()) if err != nil { fmt.Printf("Error converting string to integer\n") return nil, err } fishies = append(fishies, fish) } return fishies, nil }