---
title: "Advent of Code 2023: Day Three"
date: 2023-12-03T12:23:59
slug: advent-of-code-2023-day-three
tags: [advent-of-code-2023]
---
As before, this post contains spoilers. You can follow all of the Advent of Code posts using the [Advent of Code tag](https://lewisdale.dev/post/tag/advent-of-code-2023/), and the code is available on [Git](https://git.lewisdale.dev/lewis/advent-of-code-2023).

Thanks Day Three, I hate it.

## Part One

For part one, we had to take a schematic of an engine, with symbols for components, and numbers for "part numbers", and then find all of the part numbers adjacent to a component, and sum them together.

I really struggled to get the right data structure for this while still being able to look it up properly. In the end, I matched every integer, stuck it in a 2D array, at each index that int would occupy (e.g. '245' starting at position 3, line 3 would be in indexes `[3][3]`, `[3][4]`, and `[3][5]`.

Then I found each symbol, checked the adjacent spots for numbers, removed the duplicates, and summed them. The code is _horrible_.

```javascript
export class Engine {
    constructor(private readonly parts: number[][], private readonly schematic: string[][]) {
    }

    public static create(input: string): Engine {
        const lines = input.split('\n').filter(Boolean);
        const partRegex = /\d+/g;
        const symbolRegex = /[^a-zA-Z\d\.]/g;

        const parts : number[][] = new Array(lines.length).fill(0).map(() => new Array(lines[0].length));
        const symbols: string[][] = new Array(lines.length).fill(0).map(() => new Array(lines[0].length));

        lines.forEach((line, lineNumber) => {
            matchAllAndThen(line, partRegex, (match, index) => {
                const parsedNumber = parseInt(match, 10);
                for (let i = index; i < index + match.length; i++) {
                    parts[lineNumber][i] = parsedNumber;
                }
            });
        });

        lines.forEach((line, lineNumber) => {
            matchAllAndThen(line, symbolRegex, (match, index) => symbols[lineNumber][index] = match);
        });

        return new Engine(parts, symbols);
    }

    public sumPartNumbers(): number {
        const partsList = this.schematic.flatMap((row, rowIndex) =>
            row.map((symbol, index) => {
                if (!symbol) return symbol;

                const partIndex = [
                    [rowIndex - 1, index - 1],
                    [rowIndex - 1, index],
                    [rowIndex - 1, index + 1],
                    [rowIndex, index - 1],
                    [rowIndex, index + 1],
                    [rowIndex + 1, index - 1],
                    [rowIndex + 1, index],
                    [rowIndex + 1, index + 1]
                ];
                return Array.from(new Set(partIndex.filter(([rowNum, col]) => rowNum >= 0 && rowNum <= this.schematic.length && index >= 0 && index <= row.length)
                    .map(([rowNum, column]) => {
                        return this.parts[rowNum][column]
                    }).filter(Boolean)))
                    .reduce((total, val) => total + val,0);
            })
        ) as number[];
        return partsList.reduce((total, partNumber) => total + partNumber, 0);
    }
```

But whatever, it works.

## Part Two

This was easier - now we just need to find `*` symbols with exactly two adjacent numbers. I added a flag to my `create` function that only matched `*` symbols, and then filtered the list of part numbers to ones where `length === 2`. Finally, I reduced the list down and summed the "ratios":

```javascript
public gearRatioSums(): number {
        return  this.schematic.flatMap((row, rowIndex) =>
            row
                .map((symbol, index) => {
                const partIndex = [
                    [rowIndex - 1, index - 1],
                    [rowIndex - 1, index],
                    [rowIndex - 1, index + 1],
                    [rowIndex, index - 1],
                    [rowIndex, index + 1],
                    [rowIndex + 1, index - 1],
                    [rowIndex + 1, index],
                    [rowIndex + 1, index + 1]
                ];
                return Array.from(new Set(partIndex.filter(([rowNum, col]) => rowNum >= 0 && rowNum <= this.schematic.length && index >= 0 && index <= row.length)
                    .map(([rowNum, column]) => {
                        return this.parts[rowNum][column]
                    }).filter(Boolean)))
            })
        ).filter(list => list.length === 2)
            .reduce((total, [a, b]) => {
                return total + (a * b)
            }, 0);
    }
```

Today took me _way_ longer than I'd have expected. Feels like this year is surprisingly hard 😅