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Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

AoC 2024

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console.log('Hello World')

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func part2() {
	filePath := "input.txt"
	file, _ := os.Open(filePath)
	defer file.Close()

	pattern := regexp.MustCompile(`do\(\)|don't\(\)|mul\((\d{1,3}),(\d{1,3})\)`)
	productSum := 0
	isEnabled := true

	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)
	for scanner.Scan() {
		line := scanner.Text()
		matches := pattern.FindAllStringSubmatch(line, -1)

		for _, match := range matches {
			if match[0] == "do()" {
				isEnabled = true
			} else if match[0] == "don't()" {
				isEnabled = false
			} else if isEnabled && len(match) == 3 {
				n, _ := strconv.Atoi(match[1])
				m, _ := strconv.Atoi(match[2])
				productSum += n * m
			}
		}
	}

	fmt.Println("Total: ", productSum)
}