aoc-2024/day1/part1.lua

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-- see if the file exists
local function file_exists(file)
local f = io.open(file, "rb")
if f then
f:close()
end
return f ~= nil
end
-- get all lines from a file, returns an empty
-- list/table if the file does not exist
local function lines_from(file)
if not file_exists(file) then
return {}
end
local lines = {}
for line in io.lines(file) do
lines[#lines + 1] = line
end
return lines
end
-- tests the functions above
local file = "input"
local lines = lines_from(file)
local total = 0
local left_list = {}
local right_list = {}
-- https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#pdf-ipairs
-- print all line numbers and their contents
for _, v in ipairs(lines) do
for n1, n2 in string.gmatch(v, "(%d+)%s+(%d+)") do
-- [](https://stackoverflow.com/a/27434198)
-- [Lua Length Operator](https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#3.4.6)
left_list[#left_list + 1] = n1
right_list[#right_list + 1] = n2
end
end
-- https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-table.sort
table.sort(left_list)
table.sort(right_list)
for i, v in ipairs(left_list) do
total = total + math.abs(v - right_list[i])
end
io.output():write(total)