Fix special character position calculation

2023-12-03 20:09:45 +00:00
parent d5eb24d753
commit 8ce3db4914
2 changed files with 60 additions and 5 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,32 @@
-import os
+# with open(r'advent_of_code\2023\day_3\input.txt', 'r') as file:
+#     input = file.read()

-with open(r'advent_of_code\2023\day_3\input.txt', 'r') as file:
-    input = file.read()
+# print(input)

-print(input)
+test_input = '''467..114..
+...*......
+..35..633.
+......#...
+617*......
+.....+.58.
+..592.....
+......755.
+...$.*....
+.664.598..'''
+
+input = test_input
+
+# find every special character in the input
+# at the special character, look at every space around it (including diagonals)
+# if there is a number, add it to the list of numbers
+# at the end, add up all the numbers in the list
+
+# find every special character in the input
+special_characters = ['$', '*', '+', '#']
+special_character_positions = []
+for row_index, row in enumerate(input.split('\n')):
+    for column_index, character in enumerate(row):
+        if character in special_characters:
+            special_character_positions.append((row_index, column_index))
+
+print(special_character_positions)