I just completed day 5, and I realized that day 5 ...

# advent-of-code

[AbolfaZl RezaEi]

I just completed day 5, and I realized that day 5 input was one of the hardest inputs that you can have to parse and read in the challenges.. especially the column things in the beginning...🥴

[Charles Flynn]

I only realised afterwards that as the input wasn’t all that big I could have easily just hardcoded it…

[Fredrik Rødland]

yeah. I split it in two files and parsed each seperatly

[Kiet]

It's actually not that bad once u realize that the letters are evenly spaced by 3 characters.

[Jakub Gwóźdź]

@Kiet by 4 chars but yes 🙂

[AbolfaZl RezaEi]

@Fredrik Rødland I tested several ways to read them, and all of them had a problem in one of the steps. in the end, I used regex with some if and foreach. if you wanna give a performance score to my code, maybe it isn't good at all 😂