It’s not a good sign that this meme appeared on day 1 already…
I was having a removed of a time with day 1’s part 2 until someone pointed out that sometimes two numbers share a first/last letter (eightwo).
Those overlapping spelled out numbers were rough
It was for sure to catch people that were taking the easy route and using a replace. I had to rework my solution to get the start positions for the matches. That method made both parts easy to get together.
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its relatively fine, just harder than past day 1s and has cases that trip people up
I managed the overlap logic just fine (if in a clumsy way), but spent over an hour trying to debug my crappy parser-combinator code when the issue all along was a mis-spelling in my lookup table.
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