Advent of Code 2022 day 1

    Another December, another Advent of Code!

    Day 1 was another gentle warmup, where I spent most of my time looking at the Data.List.Split library and not seeing the function I needed.

    I needed to convert the input into a list of groups of numbers. lines would split the input into lines, then I eventually noticed splitWhen in Data.List.Split did exactly what I needed to split the data into groups. Nested mappings of read did the conversion into numbers.

    At this point, part 1 was summing the groups and finding the largest sum. Part 2 involved sorting the group totals and summing the largest three. The code is a direct expression of the problem.

    main :: IO ()
    main = 
      do  dataFileName <- getDataFileName
          numStrs <- readFile dataFileName
          let calories = fmap (fmap (read @Int)) $ splitWhen null $ lines numStrs
          print $ part1 calories
          print $ part2 calories
    
    part1 :: [[Int]] -> Int
    part1 = maximum . fmap sum
    
    part2 :: [[Int]] -> Int
    part2 = sum . take 3 . reverse . sort . fmap sum
    

    Code

    You can get the code from my locally-hosted Git repo, or from Gitlab.

    Neil Smith

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