Discussion on: Advent of Code 2020 Solution Megathread - Day 5: Binary Boarding

[willsmart]

Here's my C implementation. Kind of glad it was a straightforward problem this time. Will do tomorrow's in Python.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int getSeatId(const char *seatDesc)
{
    int ret = 0;
    for (int bi = 9; bi >= 0; bi--, seatDesc++)
        ret |= (*seatDesc == 'B' || *seatDesc == 'R') << bi;
    return ret;
}

int part1()
{
    char seatDesc[100];
    int maxId = -1, seatId;
    while (scanf("%s", seatDesc) == 1) {
        if ((seatId = getSeatId(seatDesc)) > maxId) maxId = seatId;
        printf("%s -> %d (%d)\n", seatDesc, seatId, maxId);
    }
}

int part2()
{
    char seatDesc[100];
    char filled[1 << 10];
    memset(filled, 0, 1 << 10);

    while (scanf("%s", seatDesc) == 1) filled[getSeatId(seatDesc)] = 1;

    int seatId = 0;
    while (!filled[seatId]) seatId++;
    while (filled[seatId]) seatId++;
    printf("%d\n", seatId);
}

int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
    if (argc < 2 || argv[1][0] == '1') part1();
    else part2();
    return 0;
}