Discussion on: AoC Day 2: Inventory Management System

[Mustafa Haddara]

Hosting my solutions on my github...

MustafaHaddara / advent-of-code-2018

Code for https://adventofcode.com/2018/

advent-of-code-2018

Code for adventofcode.com/2018/

I'm trying to learn Julia so I'm using AoC to force myself to learn.

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I'm pretty sure part 2 has to be O(n²⁾ but you can cut down on the total number of iterations by only looking forward...here's my solution (implemented in Julia)

function inventory_management_diff(input)
    word_idx = 0
    while word_idx < length(input)
        word_idx += 1
        word1 = input[word_idx]

        for word2 in input[word_idx+1:end]
            ch_diff = one_char_diff(word1, word2)
            if ch_diff != nothing
                return string(word1[1:ch_diff-1], word1[ch_diff+1:end])
            end
        end
    end
end

function one_char_diff(word1, word2)
    found_diff = nothing
    ch_idx = 0
    while ch_idx < length(word1)
        ch_idx += 1
        if word1[ch_idx] != word2[ch_idx]
            if found_diff == nothing
                found_diff = ch_idx
            else
                return nothing
            end
        end
    end
    return found_diff
end

function main()
    filename = ARGS[1]  # julia arrays are 1-indexed!
    input = split(read(filename, String))
    test_input = ["abcde","fghij","klmno","pqrst","fguij","axcye","wvxyz"]

    println(inventory_management_diff(input))
end

main()

Julia's a weird language...it's so close to python that I forget it does weird things like "Arrays are 1-indexed", and it spells None/null as nothing

[Ryan Palo]

I agree that Julia is weird, but I actually love it because it adds some functional stuff that I miss in python like the pipe operator!