I was having a bitch of a time with day 1’s part 2 until someone pointed out that sometimes two numbers share a first/last letter (eightwo).
It’s not a good sign that this meme appeared on day 1 already…
Those overlapping spelled out numbers were rough
It’s great! I’ve had community members point me in the right direction after already “solving” it incorrectly. It really makes you think about it. You have to expand your test cases and really come up with a better solution.
Not to say it isn’t difficult especially if you expect the problem to be described perfectly accurately.
I don’t need a perfect instruction set, but dang if the examples couldn’t be better sometimes. Like
sixteenwas in there to show it only counted for 6, but nothing with overlapping text.The example for me immediately showed my overlap bug with “eightwo”. There aren’t too many other ways to make this ten words overlap. 🙂
The problem is the example is actually
eightwothreewhich comes out as83so if you replace from start to finish the example passes but the solution is incorrect.Just don’t replace, or replace only the first letter with the numeral
You can’t just replace the first letter either, because depending on the order of your replacements, you could be replacing the end of another number. (Encountered this exact problem trying to optimize my solution.)
I replaced the second letter, none of them overlap 2 letters.
Clever
As long as you replace any spelled out numbers from left to right it should work
2oneight- if you replace from left to right you get21ightor21. This doesn’t work for part 2 as the answer should br28.
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