package main import ( "flag" "fmt" "strings" "github.com/alexchao26/advent-of-code-go/cast" "github.com/alexchao26/advent-of-code-go/util" ) func main() { var part int flag.IntVar(&part, "part", 1, "part 1 or 2") flag.Parse() fmt.Println("Running part", part) ans := permPromenade(util.ReadFile("./input.txt"), part) fmt.Println("Output:", ans) } func permPromenade(input string, part int) string { // electing to be laxy and parse values out of each step when I get there // instead of doing it all upfront steps := strings.Split(input, ",") // init programs slice var programs []string for i := 0; i < 16; i++ { programs = append(programs, string(rune('a'+i))) } rounds := 1 if part == 2 { rounds = 1000000000 } // for part 2 to determine if a state has been seen before, and leveraging // that frequency to minimize operations of the steps between them seenStateToIndex := map[string]int{} for i := 0; i < rounds; i++ { for _, step := range steps { switch step[0] { case 's': countToSpin := cast.ToInt(step[1:]) fromEnd := programs[len(programs)-countToSpin:] fromFront := programs[:len(programs)-countToSpin] programs = append(fromEnd, fromFront...) case 'x': var index1, index2 int _, err := fmt.Sscanf(step, "x%d/%d", &index1, &index2) if err != nil { panic("error parsing an 'x' step " + err.Error()) } programs[index1], programs[index2] = programs[index2], programs[index1] case 'p': var char1, char2 string _, err := fmt.Sscanf(step, "p%1s/%1s", &char1, &char2) if err != nil { panic("error parsing a 'p' step " + err.Error()) } // find index then swap. Programs is 16 elements so this isn't THAT slow index1, index2 := -1, -1 for i, v := range programs { if v == char1 { index1 = i } else if v == char2 { index2 = i } } programs[index1], programs[index2] = programs[index2], programs[index1] default: panic("unfound step type " + string(step[0])) } } // stringify so they're comparable and can be used as a map key state := stringify(programs) if lastSeenIndex, ok := seenStateToIndex[state]; ok { diff := i - lastSeenIndex for i+diff < rounds { i += diff } } seenStateToIndex[state] = i } return stringify(programs) } func stringify(programs []string) string { var state string for _, v := range programs { state += v } return state }