So, I’m currently at day 5, can I just hardcord the inputs only for stacks? :sweat_smile: Parsing th...

# advent-of-code

[Danish Ansari]

So, I’m currently at day 5, can I just hardcord the inputs only for stacks? 😅
Parsing the input seems to be a nightmare 👻

Edit: I parsed it

[phldavies]

s/nightmare/fun

[xxfast]

I found a fun way to do it. Basically you index where each numeral appear on line number 9 and use that indexes on the lines 8 → 0

[Cognitive Gear]

It's not as hard as it looks: the box numbers are always in the same position, and are either a character or a space.

[Cognitive Gear]

Just ignore the ascii-art parts and focus on what the data you need is and where it is

[Jan Durovec]

In AoC you can hardcode whatever you need if parsing turns out too time consuming for you. However, as mentioned above, the parsing is not that complicated in the end... 😉

[Danish Ansari]

Thanks a lot good people. I went the nightmare way (fun way 😜) and finally solved the problem

It’s not an ideal way but it works 👐
Here is my solution: https://github.com/mddanishansari/advent-of-code-2022/commit/b73e09c6a5bebfacd4b177f495062e3288a3de54

[Danish Ansari]

For Day 05 actual solution was not that difficult but parsing the input itself was quite difficult.

[Jan Durovec]

yes, sometimes the input parsing needs more code than actual solution 🤷‍♂️