Day 2: Gift Shop
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Python
I love it when I can just slap a problem with a regex and be done with it.
import re from pathlib import Path from typing import Generator def parse_input(input: str) -> Generator[range, None, None]: for r in input.split(","): v = r.split("-") yield range(int(v[0]), int(v[1]) + 1) def solve(input: str, pattern: str) -> int: exp = re.compile(pattern) return sum( map( lambda m: int(m.group()), filter( None, map(lambda s: exp.match(s), [n for r in parse_input(input) for n in map(str, r)]) ) ) ) if __name__ == "__main__": input = Path("_2025/_2/input").read_text("utf-8") print(solve(input, r"^(\d+)\1$")) print(solve(input, r"^(\d+)\1+$"))