testing = False
if not testing:
    with open(r"2025/03/input.txt", "r") as file:
        input = file.read()
else:
    input = '''987654321111111
811111111111119
234234234234278
818181911112111'''

testing_answer = 357

banks = input.split('\n')
mem = {}
jolts = []

for bank_number, battery_bank in enumerate(banks):
    # scan the whole bank
    # find the highest number
    # store it and remember its position
    # need to handle if the last digit is the highest as that wont work...

    bank_length = len(battery_bank)
    current_high:int = 0
    current_high_pos: int
    for position, battery in enumerate(battery_bank):
        if position == bank_length-1:
            continue
        battery = int(battery)
        if battery > current_high:
            current_high = battery
            current_high_pos = position
    mem[bank_number] = (current_high, current_high_pos)
    # print(current_high, current_high_pos)
#print(mem)

for bank_number, battery_bank in enumerate(banks):
    current_high:int = 0
    current_high_pos: int
    for position, battery in enumerate(battery_bank):
        if position <= mem[bank_number][1]:
            #print('skip')
            continue
        battery = int(battery)
        if battery > current_high:
            current_high = battery
    jolts.append(mem[bank_number][0]*10 + current_high)

# print(jolts)
sum_jolts = 0
for thing in jolts:
    sum_jolts += thing
if testing:
    print(sum_jolts == testing_answer)
print(sum_jolts)