aoc/2020/14/part1.js
2020-12-14 21:16:03 +00:00

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// I wanted to do today's puzzle using bitwise operators, but it kept on spitting out negative numbers, so I gave up with that and ended up with this way that uses arrays and strings instead.
const fs = require('fs');
const input = fs.readFileSync('input.txt', 'utf-8').split('\n').map(l=>l.split(' = '));
let mask = [];
let mem = []
input.forEach(command => {
if (command[0] == 'mask') {
// convert the mask into an array
mask = command[1].split('')
} else {
// grab the number in mem[x]
let index = Number(command[0].substring(4,command[0].length-1));
// convert the arg to binary string
let value = Number(command[1]).toString(2)
// add 0s to front so it is the same length as the mask
while (value.length < mask.length) {
value = '0' + value
}
// run the value thru the mask and convert back to a Number
let result = parseInt(mask.map((m,i)=>m=='X'?value[i]:m).join(''),2)
// store the result
mem[index] = result
}
});
// log the total of mem
console.log(mem.reduce((a,b)=>a+b, 0))