adventofcode2021/6-2/main.go

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Go

package main
import (
"bufio"
"bytes"
"fmt"
"os"
"strconv"
)
// This time, instead of decrementing every single fish for every day, I only compute the amount of fish
// I store the amount of fish per their day counter
// the fishies are the stored in a merely 8 integer long slice that stores the amount of fish.
// The index of the slice represents the amount of days left in their cycle
func main() {
fishies, err := readInput("input")
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Error reading or something\n%s", err)
return
}
fmt.Printf("Initializing fishies array...\n")
fish, _ := splitFishies(fishies)
fmt.Printf("Done!\n")
fishiesptr := &fish
// Run for i days
for i := 0; i < 256; i++ {
newfishies, _ := nextDay(*fishiesptr)
fishiesptr = &newfishies
amount := countFishies(*fishiesptr)
fmt.Printf("On day %d: there are %d fishies\n", i+1, amount)
}
}
func countFishies(fishies []int) int {
counter := 0
for i := 0; i < len(fishies); i++ {
counter += fishies[i]
}
return counter
}
// Read the fishies slice and returns the slice of new fishies
func nextDay(fishies []int) ([]int, error) {
// Move fishies at 0 into buffer, move all fishies down the stack
// Add the 0 day fishies (from buffer) to the fishies at day 6
// Add the same amount of fishies from buffer to the 8 day counter
// Return the new splits
buffer := fishies[0]
for i := 0; i < len(fishies)-1; i++ {
fishies[i] = fishies[i+1]
}
fishies[6] += buffer
fishies[8] = buffer
return fishies, nil
}
// Returns a slice of the amount of fishies per day, ordered from 0 days to 8
func splitFishies(fishies []int) ([]int, error) {
fishiesButSplit := make([]int, 9)
for i := 0; i < len(fishies); i++ {
fishiesButSplit[fishies[i]]++
}
return fishiesButSplit, 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
}