Day 6: Trash Compactor
Megathread guidelines
- Keep top level comments as only solutions, if you want to say something other than a solution put it in a new post. (replies to comments can be whatever)
- You can send code in code blocks by using three backticks, the code, and then three backticks or use something such as https://topaz.github.io/paste/ if you prefer sending it through a URL
FAQ
- What is this?: Here is a post with a large amount of details: https://programming.dev/post/6637268
- Where do I participate?: https://adventofcode.com/
- Is there a leaderboard for the community?: We have a programming.dev leaderboard with the info on how to join in this post: https://programming.dev/post/6631465


Ruby
I decided to rotate the entire input character-by-character, then parse the numbers (see the full source here)
grid = input.lines.map(&:chomp).map {|l| l.each_char.map.to_a }.to_a transposed = Array.new(grid[0].length) { Array.new(grid.length) } grid.each_with_index do |row, y| row.each_with_index do |col, x| transposed[x][y] = col end end vals = [] ops = [] temp_vals = [] transposed.each do |row| l = row.join("").strip temp_vals << l.scan(/\d+/).map(&:to_i).to_a[0] /[+*]/.match(l) { |m| ops << m.to_s.to_sym } if l == "" vals << temp_vals.compact temp_vals = [] end end vals << temp_vals.compact unless temp_vals.empty? vals.each_with_index.sum do |v, i| v.inject(ops[i]) end