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[–] madmo@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

Rust

Used a sorted/unsorted comparison to solve the first part, the second part was just filling out the else branch.

use std::{
    cmp::Ordering,
    collections::HashMap,
    io::{BufRead, BufReader},
};

fn main() {
    let mut lines = BufReader::new(std::fs::File::open("input.txt").unwrap()).lines();

    let mut rules: HashMap<u64, Vec<u64>> = HashMap::default();

    for line in lines.by_ref() {
        let line = line.unwrap();

        if line.is_empty() {
            break;
        }

        let lr = line
            .split('|')
            .map(|el| el.parse::<u64>())
            .collect::<Result<Vec<u64>, _>>()
            .unwrap();

        let left = lr[0];
        let right = lr[1];

        if let Some(values) = rules.get_mut(&left) {
            values.push(right);
            values.sort();
        } else {
            rules.insert(left, vec![right]);
        }
    }

    let mut updates: Vec<Vec<u64>> = Vec::default();

    for line in lines {
        let line = line.unwrap();

        let update = line
            .split(',')
            .map(|el| el.parse::<u64>())
            .collect::<Result<Vec<u64>, _>>()
            .unwrap();

        updates.push(update);
    }

    let mut middle_sum = 0;
    let mut fixed_middle_sum = 0;

    for update in updates {
        let mut update_sorted = update.clone();
        update_sorted.sort_by(|a, b| {
            if let Some(rules) = rules.get(a) {
                if rules.contains(b) {
                    Ordering::Less
                } else {
                    Ordering::Equal
                }
            } else {
                Ordering::Equal
            }
        });

        if update.eq(&update_sorted) {
            let middle = update[(update.len() - 1) / 2];
            middle_sum += middle;
        } else {
            let middle = update_sorted[(update_sorted.len() - 1) / 2];
            fixed_middle_sum += middle;
        }
    }

    println!("part1: {} part2: {}", middle_sum, fixed_middle_sum);
}